Proof Secularism is a Religion that is trying to replace Christianity

Moore's Corner Church

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Christian religion in our nation is slowly being stripped away, and I would argue it's being replaced.

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It's like one of you said, when you think of Thanksgiving, you don't think of giving thanks to God, people think of football.

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So the thankful part is being replaced with all these other things.

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I believe that the Christian religion is slowly being replaced by the secular religion.

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I've sort of been touching on this here and there over the past couple

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Sundays, and here's what's happening. The religion of the

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United States, even though it wasn't official, the religion of the United States was

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Christian. The founding fathers are all quoted talking about God, Jesus, the

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Bible. We're one nation under God. Nobody had any question about which God they were talking about.

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So Christianity was the religion of the United States, but now we have a new religion, and people haven't even realized that there's been this swap.

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And the new religion is the secular religion. Now someone might respond and say, but secularism isn't a religion.

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It's sort of like the absence of a religion. Well, would you agree, and if that's what you're thinking, would you agree that it's at least a belief system?

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It's a system of beliefs, and people are committed to it. People are zealous for it.

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You think of David. David had zeal for God's house. Well, they have zeal for their secular worldview.

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I'm going to touch on this again a little bit on Sunday, but I want us to stop and think about it, because when you boil it all down, this may be the crucial issue of our day.

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Sometimes we get sidetracked on some of the other issues that may be associated with it, but the secular religion, it is a religion, and you need to understand that.

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It doesn't matter if people don't call it a religion. It's still a set of beliefs that people adhere to.

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So you can use the term religion or not. It doesn't matter. That's still what it is. I'm going to prove that in a second.

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Larry? I believe that the definition in the Webster's Dictionary for religion is whatever you believe in.

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Sure. Well, if that's the definition, then it's most certainly a religion, but they do believe in it deeply.

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So let me try to prove this. Let me just define the term secularism.

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It is the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.

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So secularism is the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.

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Originally in our country, this video talked about the founding fathers, the federal government was not to make any one church the official church of the

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United States. So when our founders set up our government, that was part of it.

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There was to be no official church of the United States. And to that,

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I say, amen. Thank God. I'm glad there is no official church of the

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United States. We've all heard, though, the separation of church and state. You know that term.

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Who is that coined by? Separation of church and state.

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It was a term coined by Thomas Jefferson. And here's the thing. When Jefferson made that statement, many of the colonies or many of the states, guess what?

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They had official churches when he made that statement. So Christianity was the religion of the nation.

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It just was. There could be no one church that was the official church of the federal government.

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So now we don't have the separation of church and state. What do we have? We have the separation of the state from God.

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Right now, that's what they're trying to do. Separate the state from God himself.

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More specifically, they are trying to remove the Christian God, the one true God from public life, and they want the memory of the true

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God erased. And more importantly, they want him replaced.

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They want God replaced by the secular God, which I would argue is the government itself.

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That they are there to glorify themselves or the government glorifies itself.

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So here's the proof that this is a religion. We have what? Where does the

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Bible start? How does the Bible start out? Right. The creation account. So we have our set of beliefs of where the world came from.

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Do they have their set of beliefs of where the world came from? Right. So we have the creation account.

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They have the Big Bang and evolution. We have our eschatology.

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We believe that at the end of the age, Jesus Christ is going to come back.

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There's going to be the Battle of Armageddon. So we have our end -of -the -world scenario.

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Do they have their end -of -the -world scenario? Yes they do. It's called climate change.

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We have our standard of how to live. You could point to the

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Ten Commandments, but we have our standard of living and they clearly have theirs. We have our definition of marriage.

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They have their definition. We even have our idea of what blasphemy is.

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The the third commandment says thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

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Do they have blasphemy laws? You say well that's one thing that they don't have.

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Well yes they do and it's called hate speech. See there's certain things that we feel like you shouldn't say.

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Blaspheming God. Well they have their own set of blasphemy laws. Certain things that you can't say.

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We have God and Jesus Christ. They have their God who is whatever.

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The government, the culture, just popular opinion, whatever the case. We follow

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Scripture which changes not. They follow whatever the latest thing is.

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The latest trend. They will always go along with what the next thing is. Our beliefs though are fixed.

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Theirs are always changing. So if you look at our beliefs and theirs, they're like mirror opposites or polar opposites.

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We have the Saints along with preachers and teachers. They have social media influencers, politicians, and Hollywood celebrities.

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And they have a lot more influence than preachers and teachers do in this country.

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Kim Kardashian has a lot more influence than John MacArthur unfortunately. But the point is just because they don't call it a religion, it doesn't matter.

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We have our belief system. We have our worldview. They have theirs.

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So for many generations people accepted what is called the myth of neutrality.

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The idea that the secular government could remain neutral towards religion.

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They'll just let us do what we want and have our freedom. And as of this moment we still have a great deal of freedom.

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So I am thankful for that. But this is the issue of our day.

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This is what's happening. You might have heard one more comment on this.

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You might have heard of the Crusades. If you know anything about the Crusades, it was framed as Christianity versus Islam.

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In the Protestant Reformation you had the Protestants versus the

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Catholics. Well today you have Christianity versus secularism.

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And it's that big. Just like the Protestant Reformation, this may be in the end, if the

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Lord tarries and they write history about this time period, this may be even more significant as far as a turning point in history.