You do fail to recognize that the communist threat was a world wide and national threat. It did take a fantastic response to halt the march of this evil and liberal march of communism into the world. Eastern Europe serves as evidence of this post World War II danger. The threat was real and the liberal thinkers that said we did not need God still speak this language today. Liberalism was associated with communism in the 60's for good reason. The addition of God has made the world better, which communism and liberalism regards as the operate of the people. I vote we keep God.
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A great case could be made that Jesus may have supported REAL communism, everyone owns everything, no one starves, no one dies from preventable diseases. Being liberal doesn't make one a communism, and communism was not liberal. Although most liberals do recognize that what was happening in the 40s was not actually communism. So you may think that because of this misconception of what happened back then was actual communism. The response was in many ways great, but the implications were taken far beyond, we were fighting evil, but the source of this evil was not atheism, humanism, communism, or even liberalism. It was evil, a group of evil men making their own cult and calling it a government. It was associated with communism because they understood what it was. Every studied McCarthy? Well you should it is a great view as to why the GOP response was not only sad but unnecessary and harmful. I never said voting AGAINST having God, we all can have God on our own accord. But our government is set up to not deny God, not push him out of our lives, but to be separate of God, to allow all the live their lives how they wish under accordance with laws.
How would inserting the word "humanism" or "liberalism"
make things better? Changing words will make nothing better for we believe our rights to be a minority on issues is protected and come from God and not from the consensus of men. Your logic might be that of a lawyer but it is too liberal for a Christian theologian.
I never said we should. Liberalism doesn't equal humanism or atheism by the way. We should go back to E pluribus Unum (Our original motto) and remove "Under God". As these things, in my professional opinion, are an affront to what this nation was founded upon, and it is my job to recognize such. My logic is that of someone who has a background in law and a vast understanding of world religions, that is all.
Humanism is the default ethics and political strategy of atheism. Your above statement is very similar to the Communist Manifesto. It is the liberal manifesto and the philosophy of humanism is in direct opposition to Christianity, the Nicene Creed, and the philosophy of the CF. You do plainly declare that your world view is anything but the Christian world view which we hold here on the CF. You do tell us that we can make it without God.
I do not say we can make it without God, and please stop speaking for the entirety of CF, speak for yourself. I simply said I think man, given the power endowed by God, can do things of his own will. This is the very premise of free-will. My world view is just that mine, there is no label or potentiality descriptive power behind that.
That was the world issue in the late 20's and 40's when the German people accepted the late superman theory. Faith in humanism has not worked out well in history and it is not working well in world politics today. Why do you guys want to change our national philosophy to an unproven philosophy of life without God? I do reject that what you guys do is an assertive Christian effort. The philosophy of humanism has not made the world a better place to live. Christians are not humanist in the historical sense in that they do not trust in God.You can not logically be both, a Christian and an atheist. You must choose one or the other.
Again what happened in the WW2 was not humanism or atheism, it simply wasn't. It isn't like I just cam in a country founded upon X religion and said "ATHEISM HUMANISM!!!!" when these were brand new ideas. I am coming from the position of this is the way it was founded and this is how it should be. Not only that but you say unproven, like I said before there are countries that are far better than ours without God, this is because God has given us the power to do so and not get muddled up with describing what he thinks. Humanism is simply the belief in ones self to to good. This has made a change, the ability to do acts upon ones own volition has changed everything, I mean look around, a product of humanism. Life extension? Humanism, we want to live longer we place a great deal of importance on that, so we worked on that. I am telling you that I do trust in God, but I know God too. I know that I will do all I can do to be a good person to help those around me and if that is not enough, so be it. I can logically care for myself and my fellow humans (something God wants us to do) and call myself a Christian.
WOW a lot of typing, hopefully someone actually reads all this, anyway. I thought this issue was quite cut and dry as I have a background in the study and understand it from a factual basis. Regardless though, I hope I have at least fixed some of your mis-conceptions.