Atheism is, in essence, Humanism. Humanism is "an outlook or system
of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or
supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness
of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of
solving human problems"[1],
man decides everything: but which
man? Humanism has been declared a
religion. Therefore we now have a
religion where there is no authoritative basis for belief.
"John Dewey described Humanism as our "common
faith." Julian Huxley
called it "Religion without Revelation." The first
Humanist Manifesto spoke openly of Humanism as a religion. Many other Humanists
could be cited who have acknowledged that Humanism is a religion. In fact,
claiming that Humanism was "the new religion" was trendy for at least
100 years, perhaps beginning in 1875 with the publication of The Religion of Humanity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
(1822-1895), son of the distinguished Unitarian clergyman, Nathaniel Langdon
Frothingham (1793-1870), pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Boston,
1815-1850. In the 1950's, Humanists sought and obtained tax-exempt status as
religious organizations. Even the Supreme Court of the United States
But then Christians began to challenge the
"establishment of religion" which Secular Humanism in public schools
represented. They used the same tactic Atheists had used to challenge prayer
and Bible reading under the "Establishment Clause" of the First
Amendment. Now the ACLU is involved. Now the
question is controversial. Now Secular Humanists have completely reversed their
strategy, and claim that Humanism is not at all religious, but is
"scientific"."[2] God, on the other hand, is the same
yesterday, today and tomorrow.
In Atheism, every man gets to decide for himself what is
moral, legal and legitimate because there are no absolutes.
Richard
Dawkins is regarded as the most famous atheist in the world, but admitted he
could not be sure that God does not exist. He told the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan
Williams, that he preferred to call himself an agnostic rather than an atheist.[3] An agnostic is one who believes, within
himself, 'I don't know, but it's not worth the effort to find out'. Therefore, without a belief system, he sways
whichever way the wind blows.
In atheism, because there is no God, there is no Creator. Because there is no creator, one must
necessarily believe in evolution.
Because there is no fact basis for evolution there is no basis for
believing, and no basis for existence.
Therefore the old saying, " I think, therefore I am"[4]
(in other words, "I am thinking, therefore I exist),
applies to everything. Consequently since
you think you are, you must also have thought up the world and everything in
it; therefore you are the creator of your own world.
Because of the religious tolerance expressed in our
founding documents, the non-religious are given the liberty to espouse and
practice their unbelief. However, the
militant and most aggressively rampant atheistic activists try to undermine and
destroy the foundations which give them their choice not to believe. As with many
'animal species' the atheists are now in the position of biting the hand
that feeds them. I suppose this comes
from their evolutionary hypothesis.
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