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the following guarded statements: The future is, however, fill~d
with dangers. (Emphasis
added) In learning to apply the scientific method to nature and
human life, we have opened the door to ecological damage,
overpopulation, dehumanizing institutions, totalitarian re
pression, and nuclear and biochemical disaster.
Who cannot see the moral void and blind faith of humanism? As the
writers of Manifesto II indicate, when they look to the past they
must affirm the failure of humanism. When they look to the future
they have no way of con trolling or determining the limit and
extent, use or abuse, of scientific technology. The blind faith of
humanism is explicitly stated in the follo~
ing: As we approach the twenty-first century, however, an
affir
mative and hopeful vision is needed. Faith, commensurate with
advancing knowledge, is also necessary. In the choice between
despair and hope humanists respond in this Humanist Manifesto II
with a positive declaration for times of uncertainty.
Upon·what~is humanistic faith based? The past? The future? The
present? Nothing! Upon what do the humanists base their appeal for
human beings to make a ch9ice between despair and hope? ~othing!
What does the humanist have to offer as a positive declaration for
times of uncertainty? Nothing but blind, unjustifiable, irrational,
"nonmoral," opinions and actions of men.
CONCLUSION
Under the title "Contemporary Humanism," Eugene Liggitt in the
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia, Vol. 1 (an extension of The New
Schaff-Herzog Encyclo pedia of Religious Knowledge), p. 538, makes
the following observation:
Another self-styled humanism is the Continental movement led by
Jean Paul Sartre. Under influence from Kierkegaard and Heidegger,
being is for Sartre the final reality and nothing- ~.
ness is its content. This nothingness is an objective meta
~hysical entity to which we subjectively respond in anxiety or
dread. Man is utterly alone. He is condemned to be free and no help
can come to him from the outside. He aspires always striving for
the impossible which cannot be. Free and alone, he is doomed to
frustration and eternal incompleteness.
This is a true description of the void of humanism!
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Guest Editorial
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February
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The Church of Christ Family-life Golf Course, Bowling Alley,
Gymnasium, and Bass-stocked Lake
The Fall of Nations
Marriage Insurance
Twenty-five Years and Three Hundred Times Through the New
Testament
The Resurrection or Consequences
Is There Really Only One Church?
Fellowship: Demonstrations of Abuses and Misunderstanding of
It
April
What Happened to the Pot Plants?
Sacrificial Love
Absurdities in Defending Error
Straws in the Wind
Judging
Fellowship
A Million Frogs
Ancient Crossroaders
The Bellview Lectures
Fellowship
Echoes from the Past
"Time Brings Changes"
The "Kung Fu" Gospel
Homework
Do You Enjoy Trying to Go to Heaven?
Book "Deadline 1981: Mockers Beware" a Mockery!
August
Trouble Over "Total Commitment"
Satan Hindered Us
September
Quick Learner
Bitter Pill
No Serious Regret
Prices We Pay
Can One Accidentally Become a Member of the Lord's Church?
Gospel Meeting
Meet Our Speaker
What the Church of Christ Is Not
Strength Man Has Received from God
November
Realism or Fantasy?
December
Humanism
Humanism (3)
Humanism (4)
Too Much Said Already
Thinking of Getting Married?
The Void of Humanism
