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Originally Posted by Cyborg Ninja
It's funny how so many conservatives act like Humanism is Satanism somehow... but that's for another topic.
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I would say that many evangelicals consider secular humanism to be "not of the Lord," etc. I don't know if they would go so far as to call it Satanism, but with evangelicalism (and indeed, with most branches of Christianity, if you get down to brass tacks), anything that is NOT inclusive of Jesus Christ is inherently wrong and subject to error. This is due to the whole business of Jesus being "the way, the truth, and the life... no one comes to the Father except through me"... pretty blatant there, there's no way to be redeemed and have eternal life UNLESS you become a Christian. So by that logic, secular humanism (different from Christian Humanism, something I was very interested in for a long time) was a slippery slope away from Jesus, which always means "towards hell." There's no way of getting around that, in the gospels or otherwise.
The thing that I can't get about Christianity is that basically, unless you're explicitly Christian (e.g. have done the salvation prayer, asked Jesus for forgiveness, yadda yadda), YOU ARE GOING TO HELL. No two ways around it. I have never been able to forgive Christianity for this fact, I suppose. Even if you are the most tolerant, open-minded Christian in the world, as long as you know that I have NOT said the salvation prayer, you are going to believe (at some gut level) that I am going to hell. I find that extremely disturbing, now that I have left the fold. What a way to live and interact with your fellow man!