Salvation By Grace

• From Let My People Think: “Secularization: Its Control and Power”
• Secularism (Webster definition): indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations
• When shame has jettisoned from our society you will find how incredible the mind becomes
• When secularism has done its doing we may actually end up producing a generation of men and women who have lost their sense of shame – when a man or woman has lost their sense of shame, I will show you potentially dangerous man or woman you are looking at
  • Adolf Hitler: “I want to raise a generation of young people devoid of a conscience, imperious, relentless and cruel.”

Pre-Modern Thought:

• Began with the collapse of the Roman Empire
• Beginning of the 3rd century
• World view dominated by knowledge of God
• St. Augustine

Modern Thought:

• Beginning of 14th century
• 2 competing world views: reformation vs. renaissance
• Reformation
  • Placed God supreme
• Renaissance
  • Placed man center stage
  • “I think, therefore I am”
• Secularism is a descendant
• Humanism grew larger
• Pilgrims wanted to put God center stage

Post-Modern Thought:

• At beginning of 20th century, end of 19th century
• Man can do anything if he puts his mind to it
• Did not begin in the 1960′s
• Began to impact society in the 1920′s
• Pursuit of truth is meaningless
• Morality is obsolete
• Authority is outmoded
• Honesty is for fools
• Truth is relative
• Post modern thinking dominates our society today:
  • Every opinion is equally right
  • Those who assume authority have no right to do so
  • Husbands as spiritual head of home belongs in the dark ages
  • Authority of the word of God is the church’s way of controlling people
  • Children obeying parents is illegal
  • Absolutes of God is jut your interpretation
  • Bible is an archaic body
  • Style is more important than substance
  • Appearance is all that matters
  • Words have no inherent meaning
  • Example of Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony: “Depends on what your definition of “is” is
  • Clinton’s rationalization to the grand jury about why he wasn’t lying when he said to his top aides that with respect to Monica Lewinsky, “there’s nothing going on between us.”
• • Western civilization is oppressive
  • Judeo-Christian thought is oppressive

• J. Clifford Wallace and the San Francisco 9th district court of appeals
• Johannesburg United Nations Summit of Global Judges Symposium
• “The Earth Charter”
• Written by so called “wise people” led my Mikhail Gorbachev
• from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Charter
  • the Charter has also received opposition from some groups and governments.
  • In the United States and a few other countries, members of the Religious Right have objected to the document on grounds that it is secular, espouses socialism, and contains no reference to the doctrines of Judeo-Christianity.[citation needed]
  • In addition, some conservatives cite an informal comment by Mikhail Gorbachev that the document is “a kind of Ten Commandments”, and point to the fact that at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, a copy of the document was placed symbolically in an “Ark of Hope” — an independent project by the American artist Sally Linder.
  • Some members of the American Religious Right infer from these incidents that the Charter is a proposed replacement for the Ten Commandments, and part of a conspiracy to establish a New World Government that replaces individual National Sovereignty