The Creeping Danger of Secularism
By Alan Moore | Thursday, September 30th, 2010 | Catch-AllOn any college campus in the United States you will find many clubs and organizations that can be classified from diverse to the outright bizarre. At my school, George Mason University, you can join a club that celebrates belly dancing or another that practices medieval sword fighting. There truly is something for everyone but there is one club that takes the spirit of these activities to a disappointing new level: the Secular Student Alliance. This devotion to secularism is not confined to this campus and reflects a disturbing trend in our society.
As I perused the website of the Secular Student Alliance I was constantly reminded of the South Park Episode where Cartman freezes himself and wakes up in the year 2546. He finds a world filled with atheist members of colorful groups like the Unified Atheist League who wear pointy hats and constantly proclaim colloquialisms like, “Oh my Science!” and “What in the name of Science?” Let me be clear that if you claim to be an atheist then I do respect your decision. There is nothing that can stop your lack of religious convictions and I respect your God given right to deny God. I poke fun at the SSA because they have shown no qualms about ridiculing Christianity and yet on the surface they claim to strive for “mutually respectful relationships between theists and nontheists.”
The hypocrisy of this group and of similar liberal organizations requires correction. The left tells us to be tolerant of all religions yet they constantly antagonize Christians. To wit, last semester the SSA sponsored a “Flying Spaghetti Monster” pasta dinner. Very amusing indeed but the intention is much more sinister than a harmless poke of fun at Christianity. In an attempt to denounce intelligent design, the founder of this “Flying Spaghetti Monster” internet parody mean-spiritedly mocks Christians for no apparent reason. When the left decries religious bigotry they exclude their own prejudices.
Such childish behavior isn’t an isolated incident; it’s an increasingly used tactic of the left, stemming from the Marxist leader Saul Alinsky’s fourth rule of power tactics for radicals: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” Barack Obama, a champion of secularism himself, uses this tactic on a daily basis on his opposition. In relation to the national SSA, it’s truly a sad state of affairs when the President of the United States invites a faithless organization like them to a meeting at the White House on behalf of “interfaith” community service on college campuses.
The SSA in accordance with other leftist organizations oddly claims to defend “church-state separation” and “religious freedom.” It’s odd, because those two things are diametrically opposed. The founding fathers of this great nation laid the basis of our society on Judeo-Christian values. They understood the power of diverse faiths would inspire man to make this nation great. While the left would have you believe the Constitution expressly prohibits any mingling of religion and state affairs, this is false. The First Amendment contains the only mention of religion found in the entire document, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” There’s nothing forbidding the teaching of intelligent design or prayer in public schools, putting a copy of the Ten Commandments in a federal courtroom, or even celebrating a National Day of Prayer. The Constitution only forbids the establishment of a state-sponsored religion, nothing more.
Secularism is destroying our country as our culture is defined by faith. If society overwhelmingly has faith in a divine being that is manifested by peace, love, and respect then mankind will strive to emulate those attributes. If society overwhelmingly only has faith in the undisciplined self manifested by strife, greed, and sin – then we shall perish from this Earth. Secularism must be defeated at all levels for the sake of civil society and this great nation. The founding fathers understood this principle, it’s time we all did too.
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10 Responses to "The Creeping Danger of Secularism"
There are LARPers at Mason? Scary.
Secularism can only destroy our culture if we succumb to it. My faith is shaken by a bunch of atheists who don’t get it. They’re hypocrites, but that’s not surprising from a largely Democratic movement.
My philosophy has always been to ignore them. That really annoys them more than anything else.
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Secularism is hardly destroying our (by design) secular country.
The fact that we are guaranteed the right to free speech, thought, and assembly, makes me cringe to read such an absurd statement by Alan Moore. The fact that Moore so totally misses the point of the Bill of Rights, and even tries to wrap himself up in same cloth as the Founders, reveals that his personal ideology was developed with little appreciation of the real need for the separation of church and state.
Secularism is a religion unto itself. Yet Barrett, for once, is right. Secularists have every right guaranteed to them by the Founders to gather and be critical of others, should they choose.
However, I think I can boil this down to one word – they’re hypocrites.
Think about it. They gather as a group. They confess their common beliefs publicly. The profess that their belief is better than all others….kinda sounds like a religion to me.
JR-By your definition, Republicanism is a religion.You meet in groups, you profess your common belief, you believe they are better than all others.
Sorry guys we’re a secular country set up so not only is the church seperate for the state, it’s less than the state.
If you’d care to argue that last point, consider: can any church compel obedience in the United States? Can the government? Is blasphemy a crime in the U.S.? Is sedition?
“Secularism must be defeated at all levels for the sake of civil society and this great nation.”
You lost me somewhere between the second paragraph and this sentence. Some Secularists at your college are hypocrites, so Secularism as a whole is an evil that must be defeated?
I’m sure some members of that SSA came in as tolerant people who just wanted other people to talk to about their beliefs (or lack thereof). They found an established group of people that bashed Christians constantly and thought “Well, if that’s what I gotta do to fit in then I guess it isn’t so bad.” That’s how you end up with a “Flying Spaghetti Monster” pasta dinner. That’s also how you end up with people who think protesting military funerals is serving God.
I also want to say that “church-state separation” and “religious freedom” are not diametrically opposed. Religious freedom is giving the individual the right to choose any religion and not be persecuted by the government, church-state separation is keeping the government itself religiously neutral. How do those two ideas oppose each other?
Personally I do not take much offense at atheists. It is the anti-theists who I find most reason to object to.
There is a difference between the two groups.
@Steve Vaughan, You are confusing the “country” with the “state” (or the “government”). The majority of the Founding Fathers saw faith in God and religion as being a requirement to maintain a healthy Republic. However, they wanted to preserve religious freedom, since not everyone had the same religious beliefs. They were fine with prayer and worship in government and public settings. At the Constitutional Convention they simply decided to take turns leading prayer, since they prayed in different methods. When at an event that includes prayer in a manner I don’t agree with, that I do my own silent prayer or simply remain respectfully silent. I don’t feel left out or persecuted, just part of America.
The church is separate from the state in that the church is not part of the state in regard to governance and compelling obedience. And yes, the state can compell obedience, the church cannot.
By the way, in some cases sedition is a crime in the United States. It is crime for members of the military. Some forms of sedition are a crime for civilians as well, such as seditious conspiracy.
king: I’m aware that sedition is a crime, that was my point. Blasphemy is not. While there as somethings we are forbidden to say about the state (or country, or government, if you prefer) — or more accurately ways we are forbidden to say them — we can say anything we want about any church. Thus, my contention that, by design, the church is not just separate from the state, but lesser.
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