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Secular humanism: Christianity without Christ?

By Peter Sellick - posted Thursday, 13 August 2015


It is heresy to say that medical technology has its limits because it has become perhaps the greatest idol of all. The greatest medical breakthroughs have already been made: clean water, sewerage systems and antibiotics. As more of us reach our 90's we understand that breaking through that barrier opens us up to social dystopia.

The market has been found wanting because of the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor. Our freedom seems empty because we have not been tutored to desire the good and the lasting. The new things, like the sexual revolution, may have seemed good at the time but it has loosened the bonds of marriage and confused our young.

Being smart is not good enough anymore. For being smart does not necessarily lead to a full, balanced and purposeful life. Something is missing.

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What is missing is the foundation. Secular humanists can laud the principles borrowed from Christianity but they cannot ensure the freedom that is inherent in Christianity and they turn principles into law and political correctness that suffocates us.

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Peter Sellick an Anglican deacon working in Perth with a background in the biological sciences.

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