Transcript The Rest Of Your Life

Secular humanism
Secular humanism
It implicitly
promotes:
that establishes
the authoritarian
“Humanismteaches
is the life the
view idea
that man…
his own
moral values
apart
from the
influence
anyone (including
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structure
of the
home
should
beofreplaced
by the
God), and he self-determines his destiny; he is the ‘master of
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principle
“participatory
democracy.”
his ownof
fate.’
Man is responsible
only to leave the world a
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better place. Truth is relative, and whatever goal man chooses
pursuetoisexplore
good.”and participate in a variety of sexual life-styles:
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Premarital
Extra-marital sex
Homosexuality
Feminism
“The theory, cult, or practice of those who advocate such legal
and social changes as will establish political, economic, and
social equality of the sexes; propaganda or activity favoring the
emancipation of women.”
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Feminism
 It seeks to destroy the relationship of marriage.
“The theory, cult, or practice of those who advocate such legal
and social changes as will establish political, economic, and
 It seeks
“liberate”
women
from
what it views
as “the degrading
social to
equality
of the
sexes;
propaganda
or activity
favoring the
roles
of wives and
emancipation
of mothers.”
women.”
“A woman who likes men to
know that she doesn’t like
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men.”
 It radically
promotes abortion as the ultimate sign of liberation.
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 It seeks to have the entire concept of home and childrearing reorganized so as to have a system of
communal child-rearing done by government
supported child-care centers.
The sexual revolution
 Marital fidelity continues to be looked upon as boring and a joke,
particularly
as all forms ofthat
illicit began
sex are promoted
the various
The movement
in the through
late ’60’s
media.
and early ’70’s advocating free sex without
 With
the undermining
of the moral
principle ofpromises
marital fidelity, of
and
any
commitment,
making
failure to practice it, the home is doomed!
happiness with no responsibility.
the
Television
 The machine itself:
“Isn’t the aim of television to entertain rather than to educate or
enlighten?
People have
become
addicted
to watchingcreative
it, having
adverse
Not
according
to Hollywood’s
community…
effectssee
on the
family. as educators, with the tube as their
They
themselves
challenge,
as these
men see
it, is toand
create
 schoolroom…
It destroys the The
link of
communication
between
husband
wife,
stories
will appeal to audiences while simultaneously
parents that
and children.
instructing them… According to television’s creators, they are
just away
in it from
for the
money.family
They
also
seek
to move
the
 not
It takes
productive
time,
and
a sense
of unity
audience
toward their own vision of the good society.”
and togetherness.
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in Bible
reading
and family worship.
Television
 The message it conveys:
 Most of the programs are filled with violence, illicit sex, foul language,
drug use, materialism, messages that undermine the family,
glorifying ungodliness.
Materialism
“Preoccupation with or stress upon
material rather than intellectual or spiritual
things.”
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Materialism
The constant pursuit
of things;
a betterupon
life“Preoccupation
with
or stress
style
which
is manifested
by moreorand
better
material
rather
than intellectual
spiritual
things,
things.” instead of a better life which is
manifested
by, among other things, a happy
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family life.
Materialism
 It destroys family togetherness, particularly as parents are
both
outconstant
pursuing pursuit
their ownofcareers
neglect
of the
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things;toathe
better
lifechildren
oneis
another.
style and
which
manifested by more and better
things, instead of a better life which is
 It teaches members of ones family that the things of this
manifested by, among other things, a happy
world are more valuable than the development of
family life
.
meaningful
relationships.