People who believe in God also reap the benefit of having hope for spending eternity with Him in Heaven after death. However, atheists, such as Secular Humanists, are forced to create Heaven on Earth. This goal is most often achieved through elevating the government to higher levels of authority. Formally, Secular Humanist political ideals are collectively known as the “secular world government”—“a non-religious political body that would make, interpret, and enforce a set of international laws” (Noebel, 333). Secular world government ideas include increased liberalism (“a political tradition based on a secular ethic an d a high degree of government control” (Noebel, 332)), universal disarmament, and the strengthening of the United Nations (Noebel, 333). A consistent secular world government would also adhere to evolutionary theory, praising the political arena as a significant catalyst for Mankind’s progress (Noebel, 332). Ultimately, a secular world government would eliminate religious biases, uniting the world under the “equalizing” democracy of Secular Humanism. Secular Humanistic democracy, however, does not just stop at allowing people to vote and thereby influence political development. Rather, it more strongly refers to the aforementioned “equalizing” of Secular Humanism. However, as idyllic and equitable a secular world government may initially seem, it is supported by a corrupt desire to eradicate individuality, morals, and religion (especially Christianity) from the public square and political arena. The only way in which a secular world government can “equalize” its citizens is to deprive them of their humanity.
Because Secular Humanists see humans as the most highly evolved animal, they also see politics as an evolving field; as such, Mankind is called to use politics to control his own evolution. However, this approach to politics essentially undermines its own definition—political figures and governmental forms are meant to help rule the people, and are not meant to be manipulated to accommodate the random process of evolution. Not only is this evolutionary approach to politics detrimental to its God-given function, but it would sap all people beneath the secular world government of a conscience. By relegating politics to the status of a tool of evolutionary control, a secular world government obliterates the significance of morality and allows a people to fulfill their desires, no matter how evil, as long as they fit under “true democracy.”
In addition to the moral abominations presented by a secular world government, it is important to remember the universally acknowledged principle that “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Theoretically, the equality that the secular world government would establish exudes the message that there is no God that anybody needs to follow. All people are equal, and must instead acknowledge their political unity under the secular world government. This kind of idea inevitably causes a person to believe his or herself the “god” of his or her own private life. The feeling of absolute power that such ideas grant their victims will only cause them to spiral downward in corruption. This flatly contradicts the Secular Humanist principle that Man is perfectible, a gigantic premise behind their belief in the inevitability of the secular world government.
Finally, the secular world government would greatly dehumanize its citizens. By gathering beneath a secular banner, people would lose their individuality by forfeiting their right to freedom of religion, speech, et cetera, in the name of secular “democracy.” In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., such peace is not the well-earned result of earnest discussion—it is born from a kind of negative tension that is fueled by a fear of the majority opinion. Christians, especially, should be wary of a secular world government. Its rejection of the ultimate Lawgiver and His wisdom in influencing human politics is spiritually repugnant. For instance, David A. Noebel points out that in the United States alone, the secular world government would:
“…seek to eradicate Christian symbols and content from the public square by removing the Ten Commandments from public schools, removing ‘under God’ from the nation’s Pledge of Allegiance, replacing Christian ethics with values clarification, re[placing divine law with legal positivism, replacing the celebration of Christmas with winter holiday, standardizing sex education and alternative lifestyles into the public school curriculum, and disregarding references in the Declaration of Independence to God-given rights.” (336)
These potential results of the secular world government emphasize a sense of robbery than one of equality. In fact, the secular world government seems much more oppressive than democratic—especially in regards to Christianity. It is useless to embrace a form of government whose real-life application steals from its formally defined intent. The fact that such a government seeks to control the entire planet, even though it cannot remain consistent within itself, is a hideous insult to the human intelligence it plans to “equalize” into submission.
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