Who is Controlling Your Mind?
Christians have been accused of being narrow-minded and unable to think for themselves. The truth is that nonbelievers have had their minds controlled by secular humanism.
Humanism is the second oldest religion in the world. It started way back in the book of Genesis chapter 3 when Satan told Eve, “…Your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Humanism denies the sovereignty of God. It teaches that man is central, sovereign and autonomous. It teaches that values are relative, based on experience, human reason, the will of the majority, or based on the situation. There are no absolutes. It teaches that reason is supreme and that all that can be known is known through the scientific method.
So all the time that I spent being proud of my ability to think for myself and criticizing people who followed Christ, I was in fact being controlled by the religion of humanism. Maybe it’s time we all stepped back and thought about who is influencing our beliefs and what the basis is for the world view that we have. Also, if we are being influenced by the religion of humanism, are we really being open-minded when humanism ignores the facts concerning the resurrection of Christ and ignores evidence that contradicts evolutionary theory?
Adolph Hitler is quoted as saying, “Let me control the textbooks and I will control Germany.” It’s time we asked ourselves who is controlling our minds.
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Post CommentPaul
On October 7, 2007 at 2:06 pm
*But if they ever stopped to think about where they got their line of thinking, they would realize that they have been a “robot” themselves, programmed to think the way they were trained to think.*
We’re ALL being influenced by outside sources, religions, advertising, mass-media, each other. Someone who believes in God and Christ is just as much influenced as anybody else. In your preamble you claim the truth to be that nonbelievers have their minds controlled by secular humanism. You can believe that to be the truth if you like, but what about the truths of nonbelievers and other faiths. Do you presume to declare you know the truth and everyone who disagrees is wrong? I don’t know what the truth is, neither do you.
PaulB
On November 12, 2010 at 9:44 am
Just stumbled upon this, years after it was written. Humanism does not seem to have reached Britain, or has it? A well balanced account, probably because you have been both sides of the fence. But why the fence? How exactly does Humanism differ from Christianity? Surely faith is about believing in anything that does good. Have any minor differences been blown up out of all proportion by both sides?