What Is the Worldview of Secular Humanism?

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(1) Secular humanism is a philosophy (a worldview in other words) that embraces human REASON, secular ETHICS, and philosophical NATURALISM while specifically REJECTING ANY RELIGIOUS DOGMA. It is a form of ATHEISM that elevates humanity and its achievements to the SUPREME position in the universe.

(2) In his book “A Reasonable Faith” Tony Campolo listed 4 primary characteristics of secular humanism: contingency, autonomy, relativity, and temporality.

(a) there is the concept of Contingency. This means that everything that exists was caused by some NATURAL phenomenon which PRECEDED it. Contingency leads to the (b) second tenet of secularity, namely, autonomy. Autonomy is derived from the combination of 2 Greek words: “autos,” meaning self, and “nomos,” meaning law or rule. Thus, autonomy means “self rule.”

(3) The third tenet of secular humanism is an immediate result of autonomy. If human beings are their own creators, then their values, destiny, meaning, etc. of their LOCAL society are not necessarily RELEVANT to another group of people located in a different historical context elsewhere.

(4) Temporality is the fourth tenet of secular humanism. A secularist limits reality to what exists in time and space. He is agnostic regarding the AFTER-LIFE. Death is the END of everything, and everything is doomed to DIE. Scientists tell us the universe is expanding and everything in it is growing further and further apart. As it does so the universe is getting colder and colder and all energy is used up. Eventually all the stars will burn out. There will be no light, no heat, no life, no hope, no escape. All that remains of matter will be dead stars. dead galaxies, and black holes; a universe in ruins. Let me close this episode by accentuating 3 basic points of Christian theism:

1. there is one God;

2. His word in the Bible is true; and

3. if you stay close to Him, He will take you through.

This is episode 147.