"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." (Google.com).By definition humanism is non-theistic. Their attempt at "goodness" is from the "self" and not from God. As such it is "secular humanism" since it has no spiritual basis. In fact what is "good" is subjective and decided by each individual, although because of herd mentality, followers accept what is "right" from the leaders of that movement without even being aware from whence it came.
"Political Correctness" is what the influential secular humanists dictate is "good". It has no basis other than influential people determine what's "right" and "good". The entertainment industry seem to always be first to set the standard, and although they profess non-theism, or their own concept of Christianity, many of them are influenced by karma, being the actions (works) they do in this life or another which effects their eternal destiny, called "nirvana", the end of their own cycles of rebirth. Buddhists don't believe in heaven nor hell and eventually their existence blends with nothingness after a time of "self-actualization", to use Maslow's term.
As such secular humanism is patterned after Buddhism and all the "good" they do is not really for others, but their self. Rather than "humanism" it should be "selfism"; "doing what's right in their own eyes". When people do "good" without God it's the "self" they are minding. It's their own knowledge, wisdom, understanding which is important to them. The deception, which is always there, is that "goodness" is really for "self" under the pretense for being for others! Think not? Challenge a humanist's motivation and watch the anger erupt! It is all about them. What they think and say is the end of the conversation. When confronted it's their own self that they defend.
Because God is left out of the equation in their belief system, the politically correct are offended that God should get any credit for "good". It's they who decide what's "good" and "right" and to credit God offends their nature. Their god of self is diminished if the One True God is revered.
"Political Correctness" comes about when secular humanists agree on moral standards. (This philosophy, by the way, is the State Religion for us and many other countries!) Their version of rightness becomes the law. In fact one can say that the politically correct do a fairly good job of the last six of the Ten Commandments! However, they deny God who is to be honored by the first four! That is "wrong" for two reasons: 1) They deny God's existence or make him into a god of their liking and 2) they fail to discern that the last six commandments are how we show God that we love Him as well as other humans1 They attempt to do "good", but it's their version of good and not God's:
Judges 17:6 "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes."When we read this we think that there is no monarch in Israel as there was in other nations. That is true, but the value in this statement is that there was no KING in Israel, meaning the Lord God! Rather than doing what was right in God's eyes, as they should have, they did what they wanted to do! In fact sin is "doing whatever you want to do without regard to what God wants"!
Deuteronomy 13:18 "When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God."Therefore the standard for "right" is God, not the corporate selves. Whereas God's will is for the good of mankind, what's right in the eyes of non-theists is what's right in their own deceived eyes!
I like what Groucho Marx said: "Are you going to believe me or your own lying eyes?" Our eyes will lie to us because we are easily deceived unless grounded in scripture. Since humanists and the politically correct are not theists they are easily deceived, failing to even realize that they have met their god and it is them!
Deuteronomy 11:16 "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them..."Nobody is truly non-theistic! This is truth. They may follow "other gods" unknowingly even, but in the end, their god is their own self. They feel validation because in their eyes they have done "good". However, Jesus said "only God is good" (Matthew 19:7). Since only God is good, the "good" done apart from God is foolishness:
Isaiah 64:6 "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."In plain English "all the 'good' you think is so beneficial doesn't impress God because he knows that by doing "good things" it's for your own god of self". Maslow would say that after you "self-actualize" that is followed by a "peak experience" where you are "enlightened". "Aren't I good?" you come to realize after being deceived! Truly you have become "as gods" in your own eyes (Genesis 3:5).
It's seems unfair, but all the "good" which you do rewards you with eternal death, whether you are a theist or not. YOU may have decided that God "Is Not", but God says "I AM". He doesn't play by YOUR rules as you expect everybody else to do!
In all fairness, much that secular humanists try to do is good. It's their motivation and methods which are damning. It's because they disclaim God and do it their own way for wrong reasons. God doesn't force people to be righteous! It's what we are to do because we love him!
John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."Like the Pharisees, humanists do a fine job of doing "good" things, but it's not to love God. We are all commanded to love God as well as others. By merely having a façade of loving others is not loving God. Doing 'good' without God is sin and merely "Doing Good IS Evil"!
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