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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:46:09 EDT
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>           The whole panoply of garbage of Situational
> Ethics and moral relativity is probably the most repugnant
> aspect of the Secular Humanist morality.
> 
> Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}

	The Sea of Faith
	Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
	Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
	But now I only hear
	It's melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
	Retreating, to the breath
	of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
	And naked shingles of the world.

		- Matthew Arnold, 1867

Christianity was ill prepared for the onslaught of Charles Darwin,
Victorian science, and 19th Century materialism.  Our western views
of man and his place in the universe were shifted both by the weakening
authority of religious teaching and an increasing sense of self-importance
brought on by the tremendous technological advances of the last 100 years.
Christianity lost credibility because its *cosmology* was inconsistent with
our growing knowledge of the universe, and as a consequence its authority
on *morality* was undermined.  Situational ethics and moral relativism
are characteristic, not of any Secular Humanist morality, but of an
atheist/materialist society without a universally agreed upon foundation
for ethics.  We could do with a lot more devout Secular Humanists and
a lot fewer cynical Sunday Christians.

					Baba