Humanism, Satanism, and The New Age Movement
Humanism Part 3 - Transition Towards Humanism
We have looked at the teachings of Humanism, but we must consider the questions of where it is being taught, and how did it get there.
Though public schools and universities, the National Education Association (NEA) and certain curricula will be mentioned, nothing said here is intended to criticize faithful Christians who are educators. In fact, this material should help them by giving them ammunition with which to work in a godless environment.
In any attempt to change a society, you start with the children. Hitler had his Youth Camps; the Catholic educators have said, "Give me a child for 6 years and I will give you a Catholic for life." Humanists recognize the importance of having transitional generation too. John Dunphy wrote in The Humanist (official journal of the American Humanist Asc): "I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith....The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new-the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of 'love thy neighbor' will be finally achieved." (Jan/Feb 1983, pg 26).
It is of course, also necessary to have change agents to carry this out. In NEA; Values, Concepts and Techniques, we are told, "Teachers belong to one of the largest groups of change agents in the country..." pg 241. Even their view of the role of a teacher is different. As the old book suggested, it is little wonder that Johnny still cannot read! In an address given by a Harvard professor of psychiatry in 1973, "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It is up to you teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international children of the future."
This type of education (?) is known as affective education. Instead of disseminating facts, it encourages teachers to act as therapists and discuss how we should "feel" about facts. It encourages the subjective values clarification (situation ethics). Feelings are explored with many fictional scenarios (remember the old "lifeboat" decision? Ship is sinking with 10 people, lifeboat holds six...decide who lives and who dies?) and questionnaires asking often personal and embarrassing questions about their families. If the answers are considered too off base from the "norm", then the child may be placed in the "at risk" category. One such child was the daughter of a gospel preacher. She wanted to go to dances and out with friends late at night. Monthly inspections were made of the home and finally the family was told if they did not allow her to do these, they could suggest a removal from the home.
What will be taught by these humanist change agents? (Again, not speaking of godly teachers, but the ones who have given themselves over to the liberal agenda...estimated at about 10% of the teachers, but much higher percentage on the national level, ie, NEA ) You cannot simply look through the child's material for a chapter entitled "humanism" since it is a worldview rather than subject, as such. Obviously evolution would be something found in science texts which would be humanistic....but it is much deeper than that. Studies to promote Humanism include those that would denounce patriotism, and which would elevate all cultures as equal (and generally presented as superior to western culture); sex education in which everything from incest (shown next article) to homosexuality is promoted as just as acceptable as a heterosexual marriage; where religion is scorned as promoting hate and division...not all religions, of course, but Christianity and Judaism... for all others are portrayed in a much more positive light. Currently, in some California school districts, students must read and memorize selected passages from the "Holy" Qur'an and build model mosques. Try that with the Bible! You will be taught about the wars in the name of Christianity, but the bloody origin of Mohammedism will not be touched, though the motto was "Allah, tribute or the sword." Much of the humanistic propaganda is also in lecture form and rather than printed material, making it harder for parents to detect.
Next time, we plan to examine some programs and textbook quotes to show the pervasiveness in the classroom, and how it is often bootlegged under other titles. - Wayne Goforth