Proof Secularism is a Religion that is trying to replace Christianity

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In the Protestant Reformation you had the Protestants versus the

Catholics. Well today you have Christianity versus secularism.

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

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