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Is Secular Humanism a Religion? Is it the religion of the public schools? Does this violate the establishment clause of the constitution?
Secular Humanism is really atheism, and atheism is a device of the devil.
Secular Humanism is a non-theistic religion, according to Webster's dictionary.
Justice Hugo Black said it was a religion in a footnote in the case Torcaso v. Watkins in the Wikipedia article on Secular Humanism:
[edit] Torcaso v. Watkins
The phrase "Secular Humanism" became prominent after it was used in the United States Supreme Court case Torcaso v. Watkins. In the 1961 decision, Justice Hugo Black commented in a footnote, "Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others."
[edit] Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda
The footnote in Torcaso v. Watkins referenced Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda,[35] a 1957 case in which an organization of humanists[36] sought a tax exemption on the ground that they used their property "solely and exclusively for religious worship." Despite the group's non-theistic beliefs, the court determined that the activities of the Fellowship of Humanity, which included weekly Sunday meetings, were analogous to the activities of theistic churches and thus entitled to an exemption.[citation needed] The Fellowship of Humanity case itself referred to Humanism but did not mention the term Secular Humanism. Nonetheless, this case was cited by Justice Black to justify the inclusion of Secular Humanism in the list of religions in his note. Presumably Justice Black added the word secular to emphasize the non-theistic nature of the Fellowship of Humanity and distinguish their brand of humanism from that associated with, for example, Christian humanism.[citation needed]
[edit] Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia
Another case alluded to in the Torcaso v. Watkins footnote, and said by some to have established secular humanism as a religion under the law, is the 1957 tax case of Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 249 F.2d 127 (D.C. Cir. 1957). The Washington Ethical Society functions much like a church, but regards itself as a non-theistic religious institution, honoring the importance of ethical living without mandating a belief in a supernatural origin for ethics. The case involved denial of the Society's application for tax exemption as a religious organization. The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the Tax Court's ruling, defined the Society as a religious organization, and granted its tax exemption. The Society terms its practice Ethical Culture. Though Ethical Culture is based on a humanist philosophy, it is regarded by some as a type of religious humanism. Hence, it would seem most accurate to say that this case affirmed that a religion need not be theistic to qualify as a religion under the law, rather than asserting that it established generic secular humanism as a religion.
In the cases of both the Fellowship of Humanity and the Washington Ethical Society, the court decisions turned not so much on the particular beliefs of practitioners as on the function and form of the practice being similar to the function and form of the practices in other religious institutions.
[edit] Peloza v. Capistrano School District
The implication in Justice Black's footnote that Secular Humanism is a religion has been seized upon by religious opponents of the teaching of evolution, who have made the argument that teaching evolution amounts to teaching a religious idea. The claim that Secular Humanism could be considered a religion for legal purposes was examined by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Peloza v. Capistrano School District, 37 F.3d 517 (9th Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 515 U.S. 1173 (1995). In this case, a science teacher argued that, by requiring him to teach evolution, his school district was forcing him to teach the "religion" of Secular Humanism. The Court responded, "We reject this claim because neither the Supreme Court, nor this circuit, has ever held that evolutionism or Secular Humanism are 'religions' for Establishment Clause purposes." The Supreme Court refused to review the case.
The decision in a subsequent case, Kalka v. Hawk et al., offered this commentary:[36]
The Court's statement in Torcaso does not stand for the proposition that humanism, no matter in what form and no matter how practiced, amounts to a religion under the First Amendment. The Court offered no test for determining what system of beliefs qualified as a "religion" under the First Amendment. The most one may read into the Torcaso footnote is the idea that a particular non-theistic group calling itself the "Fellowship of Humanity" qualified as a religious organization under California law.
[edit] Controversy
Some religious groups argue that Secular Humanism-and, by association, secularism-have a religion-like legal status despite the separation of church and state, that secularism in government and in the schools constitutes state favoritism towards a particular religion (namely, the denial of theism), and a double standard is used in granting protections to these groups. The U.S. courts, however, have consistently rejected this interpretation. Often the discussion is not clearly framed. However, the rationale for believing there is no contradiction appears to include the following:
Beliefs involved are about more than secularism: Religious status has been granted to various non-theistic humanist organizations. Such organizations typically favor various aspects of secularism. However, humanism embraces a variety of ideas which are not part of secularism, for example, affirming human dignity. Even if a particular brand of humanism were to be regarded as a religion, that would not necessarily make particular positions, such as secularism, religious, as religious status could be based on other considerations.[citation needed]
Beliefs of a religious group can be non-religious: Even if a group did assert secularism in isolation to be its religion (no instances of this are known), this would not mean that secularism is in general a religious idea. ("Just because people count something in what they say is their religion does not make it inherently religious. If some people start worshipping chairs, chairs shouldn't be kept out of school."[citation needed])
Court rulings have not been about beliefs: No court rulings on particular non-theistic groups being religious have ever actually ruled that the ideas of these groups were religious per se. Instead, rulings have generally said the groups in question functionally acted like other religious institutions and therefore were entitled to similar protections. (This fact has been obscured by imprecise comments, such as those of Justice Black, but is reflected in the text of particular rulings.)
Most advocates are not religious: Advocates generally subscribe to scientific ideas, such as the scientific method, as opposed to inherently religious ideas based on religious texts.[citation needed]
Decisions about tax status have been based on whether an organization functions like a church. On the other hand, Establishment Clause cases turn on whether the ideas or symbols involved are inherently religious. An organization can function like a church while advocating beliefs that are not necessarily inherently religious. Author Marci Hamilton has pointed out: "Moreover, the debate is not between secularists and the religious. The debate is believers and non-believers on the one side debating believers and non-believers on the other side. You've got citizens who are...of faith who believe in the separation of church and state and you have a set of believers who do not believe in the separation of church and state."[37]
Court Rules Secular Humanism is a Religion
In l987 Judge Brevard Hand a US District Judge in Alabama, ruled that Secular Humanism is a religion, and that the school board was in violation of the establishment clause of the constitution by using textbooks that had a secular humanist (anti-theist) agenda. The case was brought by parents teachers and students against the school board . Sam Blumenfeld's education letter tells the story. The judge opined that Secular Humanism is a worldview that denies belief in God or the supernatural or spiritual realm. http://www.howtotutor.com/bel/April_l987.pdf
John Dewey wrote the HUMANIST MANIFESTO. He was behind Education Reform. He definitely had an agenda to make secular humanism the religion of the public school system. The first manifesto was written in l933. Having been educated with this secular mindset, people later brought up this way were behind taking prayer out of the schools in l962.
The public schools disallow teaching the bible, except as literature. But they do teach what other religions believe under the guise of Multi-culturalism. The irony is that American students are ignorant of what Judeo Christianity believes, based on what they learn in school, and more likely to be familiar with other religions.
They teach meditations and yoga, which are based on Hinduism.
Gifted and talented programs use visualizations as creativity enhancing exercises, which are based on witchcraft, a religion.
I once was a substitute teacher in a middle school class where the class told me that their teacher had given them an assignment to pretend they were invoking EGYPTIAN deities. They said she was a witch, and had told them not to tell their parents about this.
Witchcraft is an abomination according to the bible. Deut 18.
I once had a class where another teacher (SPED) let them play with a Ouija board. Though used as a game, it is really divination, and according to the bible, .Deut 18 divination is an abomination. It brings curses on people to practice it; it is dangerous, invoking demonic spirits onto people which can cause mental and physical illness. I took out my bible to warn the kids what it said, and the teacher objected. (Naturally, I'm sure she was a witch). One kid said to me, "I know you're telling the truth". They had a right to be warned.
The kids in this class were the most violent I had ever seen. They were running all over the school building and attacking each other. It was obvious to me that they were possessed from playing with the ouija boad.
The First Humanist Manifesto was l933. The Second Manifesto was l973. The Third was 2003.
Quotes from Humanist Manifesto 3: (1973)
Promises of immortal salvation or fear of eternal damnation are both illusory and harmful. They distract humans from present concerns, from self-actualization, and from rectifying social injustices. (Oh really: the religious belief that abortion is WRONG motivates people to rectify THAT social injustice). The manifesto supports Abortion.
"There is no credible evidence that life survives the death of the body". (what ignorance - there is plenty of evidence- testimonies of people having NDEs Near Death Experiences and being raised from the dead by followers of jesus Christ and testimonies in the bible that he and other prophets raised the dead.
They support elimination of nations; a one world society (new world order).
They call for a more humane society, but deny that abortion is inhumane. They want to teach ethics, but whose ethics? Obviously Not those of the people who feel abortion is morally wrongl
They claim they support diversity, but they don't the support the diversity of different countries who might have different religions? Doesn't it make sense that there would be different areas that live by different rules, based on different religious beliefs? If Moslems want to live under sharia, let them do so in their own countries, and let there be freedom to leave for anyone who doesn't want to live there. If Christians want to live in a Christian country, let them do so, and let there be freedom to leave for anyone who doesn't want to do so. Isn't this real diversity?
They worship science and consider revelation to be "irrational". Yet they say they support the arts. Yet they don't seem to understand that the arts are inspired by the spiritual realm, the supernatural which they say they don't believe exists. The word "inspiration" means "a spirit goes into it". Thoughts and music come from the spiritual realm. Is this natural or supernatural? Is there really a distinction? I don't think so.
They say they believe in science. Well, science theory talks about different dimensions of space time; superstring theory postulates ll dimensions. Isn't this the same idea as a spiritual realm but with different nomenclature? The book THE TAO OF PYSICS sought to reconcile science and eastern philosophy, saying tha t quantum physics describes the same ideas as mystics have in various spiritual writings. It is a false dichotomy.
They say they believe in evolution. But evolution is faulty and not PROVEN ; it is a theory that is only partially correct. They believe in Darwinian evolution; mutation that is random, undirected. But before Darwin was Lamarck, who postulated directed mutation, not ruling out God. And science has indicated that HE was right rather than Darwin.
Several years ago, I saw a NY Times story that talked about an experiment where some organism was put in a petri dish with a sugar that it couldn't eat. Then it mutated to eat that exact sugar. This wasn't random; it was directed to a particular goal. And the caption under the picture said "LAMARCK WAS RIGHT". So science SUPPORTS GOD, it doesn't really disprove it.
Many scientists believe in God because they believe what science discovers is evidence of God. I have studied all the sciences, and I feel the same way. Biology is so awesome that it is hard to imagine there wasn't some intelligent design behind our bodies. The order in chemistry and the order in minerals is amazing; it would appear to have intelligence behind it. I used to look at the thin sections of rocks; and the artwork looked like a kaleidoscope of rotating colors; it was awesome; more beautiful than any art I have seen by man. I have studied cosmologies and they don't rule out the possibilities of God or a creator.
They claim that there is no evidence that God answers prayer. This is nonsense. They need to listen to all the people who know better. There is evidence all the time; people are healed. They need to talk to people who have faith and have such testimonies. Pentecostal churches are one place.
You can read my article on my web site http://www.1prophetspeaks.com
Letter to a Scientist/Atheist at http://www.1prophetspeaks.blogspot.com/2010/12/letter-to-scientist-atheist.htlml
The agenda behind John Dewey's Educational reform is to put atheism as the religion of a society that is controlled by a ruling elite; they are using education and mental health to try to destroy religious belief in God.
George Brock Chisholm, a Canadian psychiatrist who was first head of the World Federation Of Mental Health, in 1945 said the "purpose of education is to prepare people to be global citizens", of a fascist one world government, the new world order.
This is the government of the antichrist described in the new testament in Revelation. Chisholm was anti-God, anti-family, anti-patriotic. He said " the purpose of therapy is to eradicate morality".
They want the state to raise kids not families. Their model is Brave New World, Aldous Huxley's
prophetic book of a scientific fascist society where people are drugged. Huxley was an insider and knew the plans of the social engineers. So did George Orwell, author of l984 (Big Brother).
Huxley's brother Julian was an atheist, and head of UNESCO, the UN arm for education. Aldous Huxley said "a scientific fascism will be easy to sell the masses". They are training people to worship science rather than God.
The new world order social engineers are using the religion of Secular Humanism in Education, and Atheistic psychiatry to brainwash and control people.
Psychiatry is Atheism masquerading as Science.
They claim mental illness is caused by chemical imbalances, but that is a BIG LIE to sell drugs and justify drugging people.
Their definitions of mental illness are all premised on an atheistic materialistic non-spiritual worldview.They are trained to think that all spiritual experiences such as hearing God or demons, or seeing angels, are hallucinations, unreal, imaginary, a symptom of psychosis. People who have these experiences are labeled schizophrenic.
Their 2nd test question is always "do you hear voices" and anyone who says Yes they hear God or demons is supposedly having auditory hallucinations, according to them.
However it is NORMAL Christian theology to hear voices. Jesus said "my sheep hear my voice" John 10:27.
The Correct answer is that EVERYONE hears voices, as thoughts in our heads. Thoughts come to us from the spiritual realm; the word "inspiration" means "a spirit goes into it". The book of James ch 3 says there are 2 sources of thought: "wisdom from above and wisdom from below".
They have been using psychiatry for 50 years to subvert religious belief.
Psychatry is a device of the devil to destroy belief in God.
It is the Devil himself on a spiritual level who is behind Psychiatry. He uses atheism as a device to hide behind.
The devil is a liar, the father of lies and deceptions.
Psychiatry is really sata-ism, masquerading as atheism masquerading as science.
If people don't believe in God, they won't believe in the devil either. This makes it easier for Him to manipulate them, by planting thoughts that they don't recognize are coming from him.
The Apostle Paul said "we are not ignorant of the devil's devices". 2 Cor 2:11
The bible says "we rail not against flesh and blood but powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places" (Ephesians 6:12); in other words, spirits who manipulate people.
There is an interconnection historically and spiritually between Nazism, psychiatry, Eugenics and Freemasonry. The nazi theology was based on eugenics. Most psychiatrists were eugenicists. It was the psychiatrists who developed the drugs to genocide the mentally ill and then others.
In truth, the Nazis were occultists; devil worshippers. Initially they pretended to be Catholics, so as not to alienate the German population. They intended to shut down the Catholic church ultimately. They murdered mental patients using drugs and gases, before doing this to the Jews.
This was a COVERT Genocide against Christians; by labeling them mentally ill by atheistic psychiatry, it was not obvious what they were really doing. It was the psychiatrists who killed the mental patients; they believed in Eugenics, killing the "feeble-minded". Eugenics started in England and the US and was imported to Germany, who took their beliefs to their logical extension; murder.
Dr Peter Breggin at www.breggin.com has researched the genocide of mental patients. He has also testified and written many books about toxic psychiatric drugs and lobbied against abusive psychiatric methods like shock treatments and lobotomy. When the first anti-psychotic drugs came out, they were referred to by professionals as "chemical lobotomy" since the effects appeared to be the same.
The Hitler youth sang a song whose words said "we have no need of Christian virtue, Adolph Hitler is our savior". This quote came from Jonah Goldberg's book Liberal Fascism.
Freemasonry is the organization behind the new World Order, and it is devil worship on the top level, which is hidden from the lower levels. The 32 level Scottish rite handbook was written by Albert Pike, a devil worshipper. He says "we worship the Luciferian principle, but we don't tell the lower levels this." I have seen the handbook.
The term New World Order was used by Hitler; I saw it on a newspaper from Nazi Germany. The occult agenda behind the new world order is to create a one world government and a one world religion and get people to worship Lucifer, covertly at first, and ultimately openly. They intend to reveal a false messiah, the anti-christ, who they will call Lord Maitreya, a new age false messiah.
Ernst Rudin the first head of the Psychiatric Institute in Munich, in l928 , funded by the Rockefellers, was a Nazi. He was also head of the Eugenics Society. Psychiatrists were mostly eugenicists.
When I was at the hospital, I kept seeing a truck go by that said WB MASON; and I sensed intuitively that God was warning me that Masonry was behind psychiatry. My subsequent research proved this true.
The Masons are running Mental Health. Dr Robert Hanna Felix, the first head of the National Institute of Mental health, WAS ALSO head of psychiatric research for 32nd level Scottish Rite Masonry, and head of MKULTRA, the CIA mind control program. Since the masons are really sata-ists at the top level, it is apparent that Sata-ists are really running Mental Health.
The devil hates God, Jews and Christians, so it is not surprising that he is using an atheistic cover, psychiatry, to murder Christians (and Jews). Jews who have spiritual experiences of "hearing voices" are told they are psychotic, schizophrenic. AND THE JEWISH PSYCHIATRISTS ARE BEING USED THIS WAY; BRAINWASHED BY AN ATHEISTIC WORLDVIEW. They ARE SINNING against the Christians who they are falsely labeling and forcibly "treating" as schizophrenic, and also their own people, the Jews, when they claim to hear voices. By putting them on these toxic psychiatric drugs, which are deadly, by design,they are being used to genocide Christians and their own people.
Water Fluoridation is Mass Medication of the population.
It was developed by the Nazis to make the prisoners docile and easy to control.
They are using drugs to dumb down the population, using sodium fluoride in the water. Where water is treated with this toxic poison, IQs are 20 points lower. It is a toxic waste, a product of aluminum processing. It is the ingredient in rat poison. Toothpastes warn to call poison control if swallowed. It does NOT help teeth; that is a lie to justify drugging the masses.
65% of the US & UK have fluoridated water. Europe banned it. NYC has it. Long Island does not.
Fluorine is also in the anti-depressants like PROZAC and anti-psychotic drugs; it makes people stuporish, in a hypnotic trance, easy to brainwash. The Nazis have been working through psychiatry all along to further their agenda. The drug co's all come from Germany, and their parent company was IG Farben, who made the gasses for the camps.
The Nazis scientists were brought to the US in Operation Paperclip, many joining the CIA and continuing their mind control experiments on patients in project MKULTRA, WHICH BRAINWASHED ASSASSINS using drugs. The whole purpose of psychiatry and their meds is brainwashing and behavioral control.
Mental hospitals are concentration camps. They use drugs to experiment on people and torture them just like the Nazis did in Germany . The drugs are all toxic and deadly. The side effects are torture. I've been on them - I know firsthand. Many cause tremors, agitation which drives people to suicide and homicide.
All the school shooters since Columbine were on psych meds or withdrawing from them. They cause the very disorders they claim to treat. The drug handbooks admit that antidepressants and anti-psychotics can cause psychosis.
The Columbine shooters were also being brainwashed in the educational system. They were taking a "DEATH EDUCATION" class. One of the shooters said he had nightmares of shooting people after this.
The social engineers are doing the same thing the Nazi psychiatrists do in mental hospitals; put people in a hypnotic trance from the drugs to make them suggestible, then brainwash them. In this case, they are controlling education with their agendas, which is why there have been so many suicides. They have been causing this for years with various classes on death.
Education is run by atheistic behavioral psychologists, rooted in Germany with Wilhelm Wundt. His followers are using behavior modification as the main tool of education. John Dewey was well aware of this. Secular humanism or atheism is the philosophy; behavior modification is the technique they use to manipulate the population through education.
BF SKinner was the main behaviorist who trained the others in the US: he believed man had no soul. His son committed suicide; this shows symbolically where behaviorism leads.
Edward Thorndike, a psychology prof at Columbia Teachers College, used operant conditioning, used in training of animals, as a philosophy of education. Benjamin Bloom, the father of OBE (OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION) said "the purpose of education is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students. "
It is all behavior modification, mind control. They are no longer interested in teaching skills, but rather values. And the secular humanists psychologists running the education schools deliberately dumbed down the population by using a reading method that caused reading disabilities and behavior problems; dyslexia and ADHD. This was by design to dumb down the population and control them . John Dewey's educational philosophy was not to teach reading skills but socialization.
John D Rockefeller, who funded the education schools and psychiatric institutes, said "I don't need thinkers, I need workers. Ironically, his sons Nelson and Winthrop went to an experimental school where they tried these new reading methods, and also had life long problems reading. What goes around comes around.
SAM BLUMENFELD in his book The Trojan Horse in Education, first wrote about the Secular Humanist agenda to use whole language learning rather than phonetics to dumb down the population.
The Rockefellers and their protégés in psychology were mostly eugenicists. Thorndike was a racist who believed blacks were inferior and hence should only be taught skills as laborers rather than intellectuals.
God made me a witness to the mental health system to write a book about it. Someone had prophesied over me previously in a prayer meeting, "I'm gonna use you to write a manual".
The first time I set foot in a psych hospital the Holy Spirit said to me, "The covering over this place is sorcery".
Sorcery is an abomination to God, according to Deuteronomy 18 (old Testament). It means invoking demonic spirits to control people; it is witchcraft, which is also an abomination.
The root for the word Pharmacy is pharmakaia, which translates as drugs, sorcery. This means God considers psych meds and psychiatry to be sorcery, an abomination. God was showing me that the drugs are openings for demonic oppression. All drugs are; including caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, pot, lsd, etc and psych meds.
Demonic spirits cause mental and physical illness, according to the New Testament. Diseases have spirits whose assignments are those diseases. The cure is to cast them out in Jesus name. Jesus did this and gave his followers authority to do it. It works. I have done it; healed both mental and physical illness.
The book warns about atheistic psychiatry & their toxic drugs which are deadly, BY DESIGN, &tells how to heal mental & physical illness through prayer
It is FREE on my web site http://www.1prophetspeaks.com/
Manual for Transformational Healing-God's Answer to Psychiatry
The ultimate sorcery will be the use of a microchip to control people. The bible warns us that the anti-christ will try to get everyone to take a mark on their right hand or forehead, without which no man can buy or sell, the Mark of the Beast. (Rev 13:17) (The Beast is the one world government). It will be an implanted microchip.
The bible warns everyone NOT to take it, since those who do will suffer eternal torment. The Holy Spirit has warned me that they will try to chip people sneakily, using vaccines. They already do it in jails, saying it is a tb test.
Florida had announced in l997 that they were "thinking of testing them in jails and mental hospitals". They were already doing it.
Carl Sanders, at http://www.TrumpetMinistries.net testifies that he helped design microchips 30 years ago for the government, as an atheist. Now he is a Christian minister told to warn people that the chips are the mark of the beast of Revelation.
Microchips are SNEAKILY in the healthcare bill passed by Obama.
P. 1001 calls for a federal registry of medical devices, pursuant to an FDA directive passed in 2004 that calls for "implantable transponders for healthcare info and id". IN 2004 the FDA approved verichip, an implantable microchip. My article "warning: microchips in healthcare bill" on my website http://www.1prophetspeaks.com/
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