Humanism
A battle that has been raging on for many years is the battle for our minds. It is the battle being fought between the State and the Church. For centuries, people have depended on religion or spiritual beliefs to guide their decisions. In feudal days the government forced a religion onto the people. Whether people used prayer or directions from a clergyman, their lives were lead by a model of perfection. This model of perfection is God.
In the 18th and 19th century, a series of humanist inspired by science and the human mind emerged after the years of religious Inquisition disappeared. Darwin, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche sought enlightenment without the belief in a high power of perfection. They searched for a way to create the heaven, to model the celestial heaven which they could not prove through science, here on Earth. They believed that with the pursuit of intelligence and truth through education, social equality, the elimination of competition, the unity in beliefs, and the tolerance of all inadequacies, that a Utopian and peaceful society would emerge.
Ironically, the same society that they despised with the Inquisitions rose out of the attempts to create their Utopia. As we discussed with Lenin and Stalin, those that didn’t wish to cooperate with their Utopian plans, were imprisoned, tortured, or executed. There is no refuting these claims for the proof is in graves all around the former Soviet Union.
Modern Humanist understood the complications of eliminating God in the minds of man. As I have written before, all humans have a desire to be inspired by perfection. Most of us find perfection in God; others find perfection in nature, while some find perfection in man. In order to create the ideal utopia the tolerance for each others beliefs is necessary. With this comes a great paradox. Many religions believe that there people are the chosen people. Some radical fringe religious groups believe that they must destroy all other religions in order to create their utopia. All of these complications are what the Humanist wishes to solve. The humanist sees one unified religion or no religion at all.
So how must they do it? Most humanists have a list of principles which they believe could achieve their Utopian society. What is interesting is the number of different Humanist societies there are. There are Christian Humanists, Jewish Humanists, Buddhist Humanists, Marxist Humanists, Deistic Humanists, Cosmic Humanists, Existential Humanists, Integral Humanists, Transhumanists, Posthumanists, and there is even Antihumnists. So to create a utopian society the humanists can’t even agree on the ideal humanism. This is important to understand. Man’s ideas are always based on the individual. We are all independent in our feelings and personal opinions. We all wish to choose what to believe and we will never agree on everything. The humanists attempt to derive a collective society as one society all believing in the same principles will never happen without forcing humanist beliefs. Kind of sounds like feudalism again? So the progressive idea is not progressive but digressive.
A very popular document revered by the humanist is the Humanist Manifesto. John Dewey, who we discussed previously, was a contributor to the first version. Since 1933 it has had three versions. Each version is more radical than the last with a progressive corrosion of formally institutionalized morality.
Humanist Manifesto I
- development of a new religion
- removal of a profit based society
- voluntary collective cooperation
Humanist Manifesto II
- more rigid then the first version
- opposition to racism
- opposition to weapons of mass destruction
- human rights
- proponent of legalizing divorce
- proponent of eugenics (birth control and abortion)
- proponent to technology
- no deity will save human kind, we must save ourselves
- indoctrination of children in public school with humanism will save us
Humanist Manifesto III
- Our knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and the rational analysis of the results.
- Efforts to the benefit to the collective benefits the individual
- Humans find meanings in relationships through social behavior
- Ethics and values are created from human need
- Humans are one with nature and a result of evolution
- Human fulfillment comes from the participation in benefiting the collective
These principles are the most prominent of the humanist’s principles which are catalysts for the communist machine. Many if not all of these principles have become the mantra of the progressive movement. If they are not stated by their words they are prevalent in their policy.
With these principles, the public school system has adopted the humanist stance through Dewey’s NEA influence along with his influence in the Universities. I would predict that there may be a fourth version of the Manifesto as if it is would be the humanist’s urge to perfect the latest version as if they were Bill Gates releasing the latest version of Microsoft Windows operating platform. This progression is very apparent and obvious. The progression then prompts the question, “Progression towards what?” Where does this evolution or progression lead us? Would argue… inevitable totalitarian governmental control or simply Communism. The moral entropy that we are witnessing in this society is the perpetual tolerance for former taboos and destruction of cultural boundaries. Instead of celebrating our morality we treat morality as some road block on the path to Utopia.
The socialist or Marxist believes that the community or State controlled people working as a collective benefit society. This is in line with the ideas of the Christian, Jew, or Muslim, however they differ in that they are not controlled by anyone. They are individuals acting in the way that God wishes them to act to create a great community and the great communities create a great society. As you can see the only difference is that instead of self control, the Marxist looks to government to control. It is the government that implements its tyranny or fear to propagate good individuals. The Marxists create a governmental prison that controls the people like drones.
If you take away society’s morals that govern the society, there is no self governing. At this point the only way to rid anarchy is to implement a tyrannical government to control the immoral. The people then adopt the morals of the state at the will of the state for the good of the collective. Those that wish to interrupt the construction of utopia are simple pulled from the beautiful garden and discarded. The state then becomes god and they are not a forgiving god. When this happens bow before your master and welcome to slavery.
