Michael McLennan is a working photographer and a qualified teacher, and has studied worldview and politics in the United States. He is 23 years old and has stood as a Senate Candidate and State Lower House Candidate for the Christian Democratic Party.

THE WORLDVIEW OF OUR DAY:

We live in a generation where a philosophy is being propagated which teaches that you do what you feel is right, that truth is relative to each individual, in fact that there is no such thing as absolute truth. It is a belief system which leaves out God and any moral accountability to any higher authority other than oneself. It is a philosophy that teaches absolutely that there are no absolutes, a religious worldview which teaches tolerance, but can’t tolerate any views conflicting with its own! This worldview teaches that all belief systems are equally relevant, except those of course which don’t hold its own fundamental doctrines (e.g. Christianity) . People do not ask whether it is true, because it is not a matter of truth - because there is no such thing. If most people claim that all truth is relative, preaching that there is truth will be absurd, because the individual has already denied the hope of such a thing. So why is it that this religious worldview is directly opposed to Christianity? It is because it cannot ‘tolerate’ the fact that Christianity claims that it is true and therefore others must not be. It is not surprising therefore that this belief system cannot accommodate any other religious worldview that claims to be truth, because by doing this it contradicts its own fundamental beliefs, which have to be true of course! So what is this belief system, this worldview that men live by? It is merely the belief system of Humanism, where individuals put themselves first in their life, and not God.

1. A large portion of the media teaches the concepts that all beliefs, all lifestyles, all ways of thinking, are equally legitimate - after all everything is relative! The enemy are narrow-minded people who don’t believe this, who push their values and beliefs on others, yet the Humanists push that very belief of there being no moral absolutes through this very thinking. The offender therefore becomes the religious fundamentalists who encourage others  to follow their creed, yet the Humanists ignore the fact that by doing this they are vilifying these ‘fundamentalists’ to follow their own beliefs.

2. In education this philosophy is propagated through ‘Values clarification’,  which is built on the premise that we determine truth, that there is no right or wrong, and that there is no God. Children discuss moral dilemmas, hear everybody’s different ideas/beliefs, and learn that there are no absolutes because everybody’s concept of truth, and what is right, is different. In sex education it is assumed that the individual is responsible to no higher authority other than self, i.e. ‘It’s your personal choice’. In other ways Humanism is displayed in the ethos of group-centered learning, where children share experiences, ideas, feelings, etc., rather than being actually taught the facts, because truth, and "ways of knowing" are something which is relative to the individual. And why has the philosophy of reading changed to where reading is now taught by the guessing of words (relative) and not by rules (absolute)? The nature of man is to desire to own himself, for if there is a God, then we are accountable to him, and thus accountable to His law  and not our own. But if on the other hand there is no God then truth becomes relative. We must therefore be opposed to any belief which is propagated in either the media or education which teaches the exclusion of God in its premise, e.g. evolution, values clarification, moral relativism and  humanistic tolerance.  The job of moral education has been left to our society which propagates moral truth as being dictated by how one feels about things, so that every sentence we speak begins with "I feel". But it is not a matter of what we think or feel about something, it is a matter of what God says ("God is a respecter of no man"). We have become like the Israelites, who did what was right in their own eyes. We have created a contemporary humanistic feeling-based blend to our Christianity.  Are we suffering from humanistic tolerance? Do we today preach a gospel which is not willing to offend people for fear of being intolerant? Are we afraid to speak out against that which God abhors? Have we said that  God’s word is relative to culture, or culture relative to God’s Word? 3. Christians generally are not willing to get involved in politics, another avenue where one’s philosophy will direct the course of a nation. In the very area in which we elect politicians to determine Truth on our behalf, we leave Humanists in our place to represent our  beliefs on drugs, abortion, euthanasia, economics, international treaties, educational philosophy, tax, etc. Then we declare that religion and politics don’t mix. The question is not whether religion and politics mix, but " Who’s religion should mix with politics?"  The question is how bad does it have to get before Christianity wakes up? It is almost enough to make one conclude that the words, "my people perish for lack of ……" might actually be true. Yes pastor, Christianity and Politics don’t mix! O yes, and we sit in our pews and we nod and agree, because we ourselves are not prepared to stand up and make a difference in any sphere of influence in our society! The fact is that we do have the right to elect people to government who will best represent our beliefs, and we should not feel ashamed of that.  We have to be worried when our churches bow the knee to abstain from being "political". I hope it makes you think, but the closest parallel that you will find to our present society is in the status of Christianity in communistic/ humanistic nations where it is dictated that Christianity is to have no influence in society through the areas of media, education, and politics. That my friends is the Humanist Manifesto, and may God forgive us for supporting it by our inaction.      *

The fundamentalists of this religion would go so far as to say even Hitler was right in what he did because it was truth for him.