6 - NO COMPROMISE EXISTS BETWEEN SECULAR HUMANISM AND CHRISTIANITY

 

 

Secular Humanist Worldview

If God is dead, then everything is justifiable. - Dostoevsky A state that values nothing tolerates everything.

Indifference is not a virtue.

 

 

 

Comparative

Issue

 

Christian Worldview

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.

 

Rights and freedoms founded upon principles developed as needed (living tree) that recognize the intellectual wisdom of a secular humanist Charter constituting a secular humanist state.

 

 

 

Constitution

 

Rights and freedoms founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the wisdom of a theistic Charter constituting a God fearing state.

 

 

Indifference to the adaptation of gender, anatomy and sexuality.  There is no differentiating “rightful” purpose behind male and female.

 

 

Humankind

 

God designed (intended) humans to be male or female, anatomically matched to their opposite sex for heterosexual relationship and procreation.

 

 

Indifference to varieties of union - gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, polygamist.  Indifference to the duration and fidelity of a union.  Marriage is fundamentally not about procreation.

 

 

 

Marriage

 

 

Lifelong monogamy.  The union of one man and one woman for the implicit purpose of procreation. 

 

Indifference to divorce.

 

 

Divorce

 

 

Marriage should be a lifelong union.  God hates divorce. 

 

Indifference to family variation and experimentation.  Asserts that children do not need both a mother and a father, two parents of the same gender are just fine. 

 

 

 

Family

 

Building block of society.  Biblical model - parenting of children by biological mother and father.

 

Indifference to method of creation - genetic engineering and anonymous sperm/egg donation.  Single women, lesbian or gay couples have an equal right to reproductive technologies.  Indifference to single motherhood or no motherhood - gay parenting.

 

 

 

Babies

 

Product of heterosexual union.

Genetic biology (connection) brings parenting responsibilities.  Child is entitled to know his/her biological heritage.

 

State sponsored daycare with short maternity leave is societal model.

 

 

Childhood Development

 

Nuclear family with extended maternity leave is the societal model.

 

Indifference to “free sex.” Focus on condom code with abortion as backup.

 

 

Teen Pregnancy

 

Focus on abstinence. Sexual activity should only occur inside marriage.  Abortion must be a life saving requirement.

 

Indifference to the quantity of babies aborted.

 

Abortion

 

Life is a gift from God.  Every embryo has value and purpose in God’s eyes (Psalm 139:13-16).

 

 

Indifference to the ecology of AIDS - focus on state responsibility to find a technological fix to this sexually transmitted disease.

 

 

STDs and AIDS Deaths

 

Focus on ecological consequence of inappropriate sexual behavior and finding cures.  Sexual activity should only occur inside heterosexual marriage.

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