I just sent this comment to Mount Blogmore regarding this thread. It seems appropiate to discuss the enemies to Christianity on Christmas Eve:
Fleming and Emerick seem to disagree with the courts regarding non-theistic religions. They are also in disagreement with their fellow humanists. Here is what I found on a Unitarian Universalists web site:
I explained to my neighbor that there are many kinds of humanism and that some are theistic, whereas religious humanism and its cousin, secular humanism, are nontheistic.
The author proposes yet another form of humanism:
I espouse a nontheistic faith, a perspective that I call humanistic religious naturalism. Like traditional religious humanism, it rejects the supernatural and maintains that there is only one reality, the natural universe. Traditional humanism, however, has historically been too anthropocentric, whereas for humanistic religious naturalism it is nature rather than humankind that is ultimate.
He goes on to say the religion is a "liberal" religion (which helps to support Ann Coulter and her book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism"):
This rejection of supernaturalism distinguishes liberal religion from other forms of Western religion.
Emerick wants to distinguish between secular humanism and Enlightenment, but this link seems to refute that position:
This is why the Council for Secular Humanism is ushering in its next 25 years with a conference which will explore the foundations of the Enlightenment that created western liberalism and look to a roadmap for a New Enlightenment. We hope you join us in this exciting project.
And I found this interesting position regarding liberal religion and judaism that also points to not much difference between religious humanism and secular humanism:
The line between my brand of religious humanism and secular humanism is a fine one. Indeed, I used to wish that religion would just go away. It is, however, 300 years since the Enlightenment, and religion has not gone away: it has, to the contrary, grown considerably in influence in the last generation or so, especially in the United States. Like antibiotic-resistant bacteria, religion has resisted the assault of rationalists and maybe even embraced literalism as a direct response. We may have to learn to live with religion as with the antibiotic-resistant bacteria we once thought were on the road to extinction.
Rationalists are thus mistaken if we think that we are just a few generations ahead of our time and can influence people to toss out religion entirely. What we can do, however, is to encourage liberal religion and religious humanism, in contrast to dogmatic religion and religious (or antireligious) intolerance.
In my own case, I used to be a nonpracticing Jew; now I am a sort-of-practicing Reform Jew.
And when you see the word "Reform", you can suspect a belief that rejects traditional principles so that humanism can take its place. And when Emerick says "We Jews", he is trying to give the humanist worldview religious credibility. The uninformed do not understand that there is a difference between traditional Jewish beliefs and the more humanist so-called Reformist Jewish beliefs. That is why I refer to Emerick as an "dishonest" secular humanist. The traditional Jewish faith rejects abortion, but Emerick does not as humanists are abortion supporters. In fact abortion is specifically promoted in the Humanist Manifest II.
And the same happens in Christianity. Remember that among the abortion supporters were those that called themselves Pastors for Moral Choice. This was a front group for the Washington DC organization called Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. If you go to the American Humanist Association list of coalitions, you will find RCRC. The RCRC says this about their issues:
Our rational, healing perspective looks beyond the bitter abortion debate to seek solutions to pressing problems such as unintended pregnancy, the spread of HIV/AIDS, inadequate health care and health insurance, and the severe reduction in reproductive health care services. We support access to sex education, family planning and contraception, affordable child care and health care, and adoption services as well as safe, legal, abortion services, regardless of income. We work for public policies that ensure the medical, economic, and educational resources necessary for healthy families and communities that are equipped to nurture children in peace and love.
There is no mention of God, and their position comes right out of the book of humanism. And the list of members include Conservative, Reformist, Reconstructionist, and Humainst Judaism. These are not traditional Jews. The member list also includes the previous mentioned Unitarian Universalists and also what many uninformed would consider Christian organizations including Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopals, Presbyterians, and United Church of Christ.
And in American we have a culture war. I have just exposed the enemies to traditional Americans who are referred to as conservatives. And in war it is important to know your enemy. And in this culture war, most don’t know who the enemy are…they are humanists in disguise. And the Drive-By media attacks the conservatives as they give these far-left anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-family, and anti-American supporters a pass.
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