How to turn a Christian into a Secular Humanist
Published by tramsek July 13th, 2006 in UpdatesBrethren, if you have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, let me put before you a great need. We need to strengthen Christian public school teachers through our encouragement and prayers. Ask that God would embolden them to teach in the name of Jesus. Grant them the courage to teach the true history of the universe. If you are a Christian in the public school system, donââ?¬â?¢t let Satan steal your courage from you to proclaim that ââ?¬Å?the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdomââ?¬?. Unfortunately, many Christians are in effect, practicing secular humanism by simply leaving Jesus Christ out of every subject of education.
Let�s strengthen our brothers and sisters in Christ by supporting their efforts to boldly proclaim God�s sovereign hand in history, God�s creation of order and mathematics, how God can be glorified in our writing and reading, how science confirms the truth of the Bible, etc. The humanists are very shrewd and have pressured Christians for too long to commit the sin of silence. We as Christians feel like we are being forced to give up our Christianity when we walk through the workplace doors. But the truth of the matter is we are not being forced to give up our faith, we are being pressured, but we do not have to succumb to that pressure. On the contrary we must stand up for Jesus in every area of life, letting our light shine in such a way that men glorify God. This is not only applicable to teachers in the government school system, but to all Christians in any secular work environment.
Many times Christian teachers in government education will console themselves by thinking their actions or lifestyle will ââ?¬Ë?preachââ?¬â?¢ for them. Perhaps the students will notice that they donââ?¬â?¢t cuss and theyââ?¬â?¢re nice. The Biblical mandate, however is to preach the truth with our words and our behavior. It is not one or the other. Just today I heard of a student in the public school system who wrote a science paper on Creationism and received an A by his teacher. Apparently the paper was passed around to other teachers and all were impressed by it. One of the teachers sent a postcard to the studentââ?¬â?¢s house saying the teacher was encouraged to be more bold in her faith at school because of the studentââ?¬â?¢s boldness. Thatââ?¬â?¢s what Iââ?¬â?¢m talking about. By the grace of God, letââ?¬â?¢s encourage one another to take a stand for righteousness even (or especially) in our secularized workplaces. Shine your light before men and God and see what God does. Let us fear God more than men.
Hereââ?¬â?¢s a snippet from a press release by the ââ?¬Å?American Atheistsââ?¬? group on May 2nd, 1994.
American Atheists, today, has demanded that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission modify its newly issued regulations and guidelines to include protection for Atheists against religious harassment in the workplace.
These demands include the following:
(1) The physical work place, itself, should be religion-free, that is without religious radio programs, signs, framed mottos, pictures, poems, calendars, ornaments, jewelry, brochures, crucifixes, Bibles or religious literature, and religious notices (on shared communications boards).
(2) The milieu of the work place should be free of ââ?¬Å?god-talk,ââ?¬? that is singing, humming, or whistling of religious songs or hymns, religious conversations, prayers, and overt meditations.
(3) ââ?¬Å?Holidayââ?¬? celebrations should not be religion centered. Religious decorations, religious ââ?¬Å?caroling,ââ?¬? and prayers should be eliminated during the Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, Passover and Ramadan seasons. At most grouped ââ?¬Å?Winterââ?¬? and ââ?¬Å?Springââ?¬? events should be recognized.
(4) Employees should not adorn themselves with religious paraphernalia (yarmulkes, crucifixes, earrings, head scarfs).
(5) Any or all oral or written proselytizing for religion should be forbidden at interpersonal, supervisory, or executive relationship levels.
(6) Pay increments and promotions should be based strictly on job performance and not on association or affiliation with religious person or groups.�
ââ?¬Å?The attention of the EEOC is called to a recent (April 
20/20 special on ABC television featuring Barbara Walters and Hugh Downs. In reviewing the safety of mail carriers, the ABC cameras captured a scene in a Los Angeles post office where a supervisor called all employees to a central location there to ââ?¬Å?hold hands and pray to Jesus Christââ?¬? for the safety of the carriers. Neither Ms. Walters nor Mr. Downs found such offensive behavior unusual. This speaks to the current religious domination in federal work places which Atheists should not need to endure.
Religious persons and groups are now addressing the EEOC with the claim that discrimination is practiced against religious persons who desire to evidence, display, or proselytize their religious convictions. Jon Murray, President of American Atheists noted, ââ?¬Å?This is a joke; the basic discrimination in the work place is against those persons who are not religious.ââ?¬?
ââ?¬Å?Religion is, or ought to be, a private matter. Even with eight hours of employment per day, religious persons still have sixteen hours of time, each day, to perform religious obligations and are, therefore, under no real restriction. Activities related to the religion of any employee should be anathema in any places of employment, government or private.ââ?¬?
ââ?¬Å?It is now recognized that smoking can be injurious to the physical health of non-smokers and consequently it is being eliminated in work areas. Religion should also be eliminated as it is injurious to the emotional and psychological health of persons who are not religious as well as to adherents of minority religions. The problem can be solved by the application of the strict standard of No Religion in the work place.ââ?¬?
ââ?¬Å?Now that all polling reveals that 10 percent of the population is not religious, the right to their freedom from religion must be guarded by this regulatory agency, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.ââ?¬?
WOW! Doesn�t this alarmingly seem to be happening before our very eyes. On our watch, more and more of our culture seems to be secularized, evolutionized. You can sense that many of the atheists demands have been fulfilled in the government school system, being systematically propagated by organizations like the NEA. Christians in this system have acquiesced to the atheists demands, incrementally, little by little we have given ground to the humanists and they are more than willing to take it from us. Did we not used to have Bible reading in the schools? Didn�t we use to be able to see God�s Word posted in the 10 commandments in the classroom? Weren�t we able to pray in the name of Jesus in our schools? In fact we used to teach grammar and phonics from the Bible! But where are we today? Because we Christians have given ground and not stood up for the truth, our children are being indoctrinated into an anti-Christ system.
Let us not become a statistic or worse, in God�s eyes one who commits the sin of silence in our schools and at our workplace. Let us have faith in God and boldly proclaim the Truth in every setting that we find ourselves in. If God is for us, who can be against us? Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world!
As given to us in one of the three organic founding documents including the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, the Northwest Ordinance affirmed in 1789 the same year as the First Amendment was added to the Bill of Rights states,
“Art. 3. {Religion}, morality, and knowledge, {being necessary to good government} and the happiness of mankind, {schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.}”
Religion should forever be encouraged and taught in schools, and is necessary for a good government.
The Northwest Ordinance was “arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by the Continental Congress other than the Declaration of Independence, it established the precedents by which the United States would expand westward across North America by the admission of new states, rather than by the expansion of existing states.”
Quote: “Even with eight hours of employment per day, religious persons still have sixteen hours of time, each day, to perform religious obligations and are, therefore, under no real restriction. Activities related to the religion of any employee should be anathema in any places of employment, government or private.ââ?¬?
Witness while you sleep, I see.
…should be anathema: sounds like a Roman atheist kind of curse to me…
This is a clear and inexcusable form of curtailing of the right to free speech. What I don’t understand is that if we have the right to free speech, then we should saz whatever we want. Anyway, what makes the workplace any different from other public places? And what if they want to make someone do something against their own religion?
This really gets me pumped for Christ. I always did like to cause trouble, but ever since I got saved, I’ve been looking for ways to cause it for the enemy. This is definatley how I can do it. Pass this entry on to every Christian teacher at my school who are scared to talk about the truth. This should change their mind. Thanks AiG for helping out a follower in need. I totally appreciate and love ya for it.
Christ won. Satan zero.
This really gets me pumped for Christ. I always did like to cause trouble, but ever since I got saved, I�ve been looking for ways to cause it for the enemy. This is definatley how I can do it. Pass this entry on to every Christian teacher at my school who are scared to talk about the truth. This should change their mind. Thanks AiG for helping out a follower in need. I totally appreciate and love ya for it.
Christ won. Satan zero
The atheists assert that “Religion [in the workplace] should also be eliminated as it is injurious to the emotional and psychological health of persons who are not religious as well as to adherents of minority religions.” If atheism makes one so emotionally and psychologically fragile as to be injured by someone else expressing a relationship with a Person Whose very existence the atheist denies, then atheism itself must be extremely unhealthy. If so, atheists need treatment, not protection (not they we would ever force it on them as they would force their preferences on us).
Very well said Paul. The atheists never stop to think that telling us to stop “pressing our religion on them in the public workplace” is, by its very nature, them pressing their belifs on us. That is why teachers need to stop being silent. Rediculous attacks such as theis merely let us know that we are doing our job. We’re getting the word out, and they don’t like it. To all the teachers everywere, keep up the good work. God Bless
That “press release” is completely bogus. No such thing was ever issued by an atheist “organization”. The only places it can be found are on the AiG website, and here: http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/aa007.htm
HolySmoke.org is a website that tracks practical jokes, urban legends, and general bunk.
You’ve been had, folks. Atheists do not want to force you to take off your crosses. You can humm hyms until you turn blue in the fact. We don’t care.
Of course, it’s great for you guys to make up stuff like this because it gets people like Foxx “pumped up for Christ”. So who cares if it’s true or not. I mean, a little lie for the Lord is ok. Right…?
Please note that the Press Release from the “American Atheists” organization is legitimate. See here http://www.atheists.org/ftpfiles/Press_Releases/eeoc.txt
Here is the archive of their press releases http://www.atheists.org/pressreleases/archive.html
Paul,
I think that, generally, the atheists are irrelevant as regards their attempts to censor Christians from the public square. However, the ACLU is not irrelevant and has been very effective at censoring Christians, although they have also sided with Christians on occasion.
Certainly I would agree that Christian organizations use occasions where Christians have been censored to “drum up business.” I see no problem with that, although there is a minor problem if the problem is overstated. But that’s a matter of degree and interpretation. If you don’t like it, don’t send them money.
Well I’ll be… (well, you know lol)
Apologies to Tramsek. But let me follow that up with the assurance that I don’t know a single atheist — and I know many — who would support such a clear invasion of religious rights. On-the-job proselytizing (sp?) is one thing, but every American has the right to wear a cross, or a yarmulke, or whatever expresses their religion.
TomH, I tend to have a hair trigger about such things because yes, it happens often. Even your own Ken Hamm has done it, you’ll be embarrassed to know (or you should be anyway).
In his radio broadcast posted on April 18, 2006, titled
“Evolutionists: They’re Not Telling the Truth”, he stated that a book distributed by the National Academy of Sciences tells instructors to — quoting — “not let students even question whether [evolution] could be true or not.”
But it says nothing like that. I read the entire document, several times, and it stresses again and again that teachers should encourage their students to ask questions, that it is that very inquisitiveness that helps them learn. It says that over and over, and nowhere does it say ââ?¬Å?But NOT about evolution!ââ?¬?
I found it more than a little ironic that a story called “Evolutionists: They’re Not Telling the Truth” would completely misrepresent the truth.
So yes, apologies on this one. But perhaps you can see why I reacted as I did.