How To Understand Humanism

1. Are public schools allowed to promote a religion? YES

*US Supreme Court Identified Humanism as a religion

*John Dewey was the chief designer of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto and he is called the "father of progressive education."

*Charles Potter was a signer of the Humanist Manifesto and was the honorary president of the National Education Association (NEA). He said, "Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every public school is a school of humanism."

*To display the Ten Commandments in a public school is illegal

*It is illegal to have a moment of silence in a public school because it may be interpreted by the students as prayer.

*Unconstitutional for students to meet before and after school to read the Bible

*Courses in Values Clarification" do away with moral absolutes

 

2. Is it right to try to legislate morality? YES

*Every law legislates morality. Public policies require decisions which inevitably reflect moral judgments.

*Since 1973 over 20 million babies have been aborted in the U.S.

*New York's highest court ruled that the New York State Legislature must determine which human beings are actually persons who are entitled to live. Byrn v. New York City Health and Hospital Corporation.

*The California Supreme Court ruled that a child could sue for being born, because he/she could be born with a handicap. Turpin v. Sortini (1982).

*The Attorney General of Delaware issued an opinion stating that a doctor who had failed to kill two unborn babies with lethal injections could be sued for criminal malpractice.

 

3. Is the world facing the great threat of overpopulation? NO

*There are 52.5 million square miles of land area in the world. All the people in the world cold stand, without touching anyone else, in less than 200 square miles. If all the people in the world came together in one place and stood shoulder to shoulder, they could fit within the city limits of Jacksonville, Florida. (841 square miles).

 

4. Is the world running out vital natural resources? NO

*Shortages of one product have always been a motivation to create a new product from existing and often overlooked resources.

 

5. Does India have widespread hunger because of lack of food? NO

*There are two hundred million cows in India

 

6. Does the Bible specifically teach that abortion is murder? YES

*Phil. 2:5-8; Luke 1:41,44; Gen. 25:22-23; Psalm 51:5; Exodus 20:13; 21:22-25

 

7. Are venereal diseases being cured through medical research? NO

*For every "cure" that is discovered, new and more lethal strains of drug-resistant infections develop.

 

8. Did the First Amendment establish the separation of church and state? NO

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This amendment to prevent the Federal government from establishing a national denominational church, such as existed in England.