Christianity, the Enemy of Secular Humanism

by Allen Wildmon                                                                                                                                   Vol. IX, No. 8, September 1996

[Reprinted from AFA Journal August 1996. Allen Wildmon is AFA director of public relations.]

           When Vladimir Lenin, the father of Communism, was asked what his goal in life was he stated, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism." A former Russian Commissar of Education, Anatole Lunarcharsky said, "We must hate Christians and Christianity, even the best of them must be considered our worst enemies. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor! What we want is ... hate. Only then will we conquer the universe!"

           In an article titled "A New Religion For A New Age," in American Humanist Association Journal, John Dunphy stated, "Christian churches ... have been directly responsible for most of the wars, persecutions and outrages which humankind has perpetrated upon itself over the past two thousand years." Dunphy went on to state, "The Bible is not merely another book, an outmoded and archaic book, or even an extremely influential book; it has been and remains an incredibly dangerous book."

           Gerald Barney, keynote speaker at the 1993 United Nations Parliament of World Religions, spoke of an internationally famous, highly influential author on sustainable development who said, "Religion must die. It is the fundamental cause of virtually all social, economic, and ecological problems and much of the violence in the world." Some believe this statement was made by Maurice Strong, expected by many to be the next Secretary General of the United Nations.

           Barney went on to say that humans must die to 20th century ways of thinking and being, that every person must think like earth, act like earth, be earth, and that as soon as we humans learn to think like earth, we together will see a new future for the earth. According to Barney the only alternative to the destruction of religion is the "reinterpretation and even rejection of ancient traditions and assumptions" and the creation of a "'sustainable' faith tradition on earth...... With this new faith there would be a..."just, and humane future for earth and her people."

           Barney helped write Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do? The appendix of this report contains an invitation for heads of state and religious leaders to convene in Thingvellir, Iceland, on January 1, 2000. There in a tent around an altar made of stone these leaders would present their written covenants pledging loyalty to Gaia, the New Age pagan god of environmental religion. This would be, according to Barney, "a ritual death to and giving up of the old 20th century and its ways of thinking and being."

           Communism, humanism, and the pagan god promoted by the United Nations Parliament of World Religions have one common purpose, to remove Christ from America and the world.