Parent set: Notes on Love

Related set: Notes on Feminism

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The only people who don’t have to give up anything to live in a secular society are atheists and agnostics. What does that tell you about secularism?

One of the things it should tell you is that secularism is not the solution to religious divisions that many people think it is. On the contrary, it is a problem – a much bigger problem than even many believers have yet realized.

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Most Americans think secularism fosters religious pluralism, but that’s not the case at all. What it actually does is force religion into the closet…which fosters atheistic and agnostic hegemony.

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Modern secularism is neither a friend nor a neutral party to religion. It is an enemy of religion.

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Secularism is not just an enemy of religion; it is the worst kind of enemy because it poses as a neutral party…acting in the spirit of friendship.

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Late-stage secularism, like a late-stage cancer, is malignant and deadly. Secularism in our day is against God, but it is particularly antichrist. The pluralism that the American founders sought was a pluralism of Protestant denominations. By contrast, today’s pluralism seeks to be a pluralism of atheism, agnosticism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions. Such a pluralism is only rhetorical and cannot be lived out because the first two cannot be reconciled with the other three. Today’s pluralism therefore always ends up being a reduction to the lowest common denominator, which means that it merely becomes atheism by another name.

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Both statistical research and anecdotal evidence indicate that secularism in America is on the rise…and it’s reaching unprecedented heights. Even more troubling, the research indicates that only half the people who think secularism increasing its domination of the culture think that’s a bad thing. If a father doesn’t live and teach the Bible to his children, they’ll be adopting secularism by the osmosis of peer pressure.

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Secularism Is the Root of America’s Dilemma

Neither DEI, CRT, the sexual revolution, crime, government-sponsored mass illegal immigration, nor any other current societal pathology is the root of our societal dysfunction. Rather, the items I’ve listed, and many others like them, are all fruit – poisonous fruit. The root of our societal collapse is secularism. Secularism is the root because it forces us to interact in public as if God does not speak, spawning an unending cavalcade of toxic ideologies with no word of God to stop them. Secular arguments have proven impotent against secular ideologies; principled secularists can never prevail over unprincipled secularists because the latter are all about power – not principle. Contrast our current situation with the many references to God in America’s founding documents and our first president choosing to take his oath of office by swearing on a Bible. Chop the fruit and the root will grow more fruit; but chop the root and the fruit will all die. The current problem in America is not so much the people who promote the fruit, but rather that too many of the people who are against the poisonous fruit are not willing to go after the root.

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Secularism and Islam – Two Great Lies

The two greatest lies dominating the world today are secularism and Islam. The first is a lie of omission; the second is a lie of commission. That is, the first lies about Jesus Christ by excluding Him from public conversation; the second lies about Him by claiming there is a prophet greater than Him. One or the other of these two lies is currently suffocating most nations west and east.

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Secularism and Islam – Two Great Enemies

Currently, Christianity’s greatest enemy in the East has risen from without and it is Islam; meanwhile, Christianity’s greatest enemy in the West has risen from within and it is Secularism. Satan thinks that through these two movements – one claiming God’s backing, the other insisting He be left out of the discussion – he has the world in a pincer movement from which it cannot escape. But he knows that Islam and Secularism will eventually devour each other because both long to be dominant. The devil just hopes he can use the two movements to extinguish Christianity before they extinguish each other. But Satan cannot outsmart God. Never has and never will. God will prevail on the earth…just as He has prevailed over and over, and most importantly as He did against death. You watch. You wait. You’ll see. Meanwhile, keep reading the Bible to yourself and your family every day, practicing the parts you understand. Jesus Christ will deliver you and yours as He did Noah.

_{^{(This note also appears in Notes on Love.)}}

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Secularism is modern man’s way of getting rid of God ( a la Mark 12:1-9). It’s the unspoken agreement between believers and unbelievers that whenever both groups are together, everyone will act like unbelievers. The selling point is that the alternative would result in some kind of theocracy which would “obviously” be awful (“The Handmaid’s Tale” and all that). The implicit assumption is that all forms of theocracy are worse than atheocracy – atheocracy being the opposite of theocracy. I’m not surprised that unbelievers like secularism (which is “atheocracy”) because it requires all people to speak and act as if there’s no God. What’s surprising is that believers go for it.

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