See! No Evil!

Secular intellectuals

The main difference between the Judeo-Christian worldview and the secular humanist worldview is how both groups see human nature. Those who possess a Judeo-Christian worldview see human nature as being contaminated by sin (evil), while those who possess a secular worldview see human nature as intrinsically good.

Here's what the Bible says about human nature: "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:23-24) And it says this: "The heart is more deceitful than all else, and is desperately wicked; Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9)

Secular humanists, who consist primarily of atheists and leftists, view human nature very differently. They believe that all human beings are born basically good and do bad things when they're corrupted by the world. If that's true then that presents a serious problem. Where did evil come from if all human beings are born good? That doesn't make any sense. 

But it makes perfect sense to humanists who refuse to recognize the inherent sinful nature in human beings. Whenever someone commits a heinous act, that person is often labeled as mentally ill or emotionally disturbed. And the emotional malady is usually attributed to something that person experienced in the world. Again: If human beings are born basically good, then the world should be a paradise. But it isn't. 

The latest example of the secular worldview being used to cover up evil is the recent attack by Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, the Islamist mujahid who shot up two military recruiting centers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing four marines and a navy petty officer. Though Abdulazeez's religion is the reason why he attacked the two centers, America's secular media are now trying to blame his actions on "mental illness." 

From Brian Ross at ABC News: He was a man with serious mental illness, depressed and conflicted, a devout Muslim who regularly violated his faith by smoking marijuana and drinking heavily, but not anti-American or connected to ISIS. 

That is the portrait the family of 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez has painted for FBI agents trying to learn why he went on a spree of violence last week that resulted in the deaths of five uniformed members of the military in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Law enforcement officials told ABC New the family has been fully cooperating in the investigation. The FBI said it has yet to see any evidence Abdulazeez was connected to ISIS or any other terror group.

Then there was the recent massacre in Charleston, South Carolina where a white supremacist named Dylann Roof gunned down nine people in a black church. Here's what Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow wrote about Roof: Dylann Roof, who allegedly shot and killed nine people at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., showed all the signs of severe and worsening mental illness. We know, of course, that Roof expressed hateful white supremacist opinion. But we also know that psychiatrically ill people can channel their paranoia or depression or extreme self-loathing into bizarre beliefs that sometimes lead to the destruction of others. Those beliefs can look just like intense hatred — of a particular person or a whole race of people.

And of course, much of the secular media remain convinced that James Holmes, the man who killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012, is insane, despite Holmes' court-appointed psychiatrist who declared him completely sane and rational. 

Another component of the secular worldview is Charles Darwin's theory of Natural Selection, the belief that human beings are evolving toward perfection. That's difficult to believe considering the current events going on in the world. Human beings are becoming more violent and depraved, and only a fool would believe otherwise.

And why are people becoming so depraved? Because they've become ignorant of God and have rejected His laws and wisdom in the Bible. The apostle Paul revealed what happens to people who reject God: "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32)

That's the real worldview. When we acknowledge that, we fear God and respect His laws and authority. And we have law and order.

But when we ignore that for mythical worldviews that absolve human beings of their sinful nature, then evil ensues. Every time. As Solomon wrote: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7)

Symptoms and Causes

The Confederate Flag

In their typical fashion, leftists are now demanding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House building after Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, shot nine people to death last week in a black church located in Charleston.

Certainly, the Confederate flag is offensive to many people, and it's long been associated as a symbol of the old Jim Crow south. But I seriously doubt that the rebel flag had anything to do with Roof's racist beliefs and his murderous actions. Rather, Roof used that flag to flaunt his rebellion against blacks, the human race and God.

I'm not defending the rebel flag. If the people of South Carolina want it removed from their State House, then it should be gone. However, removing the flag isn't going to stop evil people such as Roof from committing heinous crimes against innocent people. 

The only way to prevent more Dylann Roofs from destroying human life is to raise children properly in biblical values so that they'll recognize that all human beings regardless of color, are created in the image of God and aren't the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces. Roof thought himself and his race superior to blacks, and his perverted mind convinced him that blacks had to be eliminated from the earth.

Roof's beliefs, albeit evil, aren't unique to white supremacists. Those beliefs are also found in Islam that teaches that Jews are the offspring of apes and pigs and therefore must be eliminated from the world. Adolf Hitler believed the Jews to be a corrupt race that had to be eliminated from the earth. And Elijah Muhammad, one of the founders of the Nation of Islam, taught that whites are the spawn of Satan and they have to be eliminated from the planet.

And remember a woman named Margaret Sanger? She founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 that later became known as Planned Parenthood. Sanger was a virulent racist who believed that blacks were an inferior race that had to be eliminated from the world. 

Here's what Sanger wrote in Woman, Morality and Birth Control that was published in 1922: We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities.  The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. 

And in 1932, she revealed one of her true motives for birth control: Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/10-eye-opening-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/

The Bible reveals that the root cause of all evil in the world is the sinful nature that's inherent in all human beings from the time of birth. The symptoms of evil manifest in violent crime, poverty, greed, financial corruption, laziness, sexual immorality and of course racism. 

Leftists reject the biblical worldview by claiming that human beings are born basically good and are subsequently corrupted by such things as poverty, inequality, racism and social injustice. If that's true then where did poverty, inequality, racism and social injustice come from? Space aliens? Rather those evils come from morally-depraved, sinful human beings. 

If all human beings are born "basically good" then such maladies as poverty, inequality, racism and social injustice shouldn't exist. But they do. That's the root cause of evil in the world rather than such things as the existence of the Confederate flag. 

Jesus Christ explained that to His disciples one day during His ministry in ancient Israel. When some of His disciples were soundly condemned by the Pharisees for violating a rabbinical custom by not washing their hands before they ate, Christ said this: "Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart comes evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them." (Matthew 15:17-20)

Confederate flags don't create racists--evil does. And evil begins in the human heart and not at the top of a flagpole.

Whitewashing Evil

James Holmes

According to the leftist worldview, all human beings are born "basically good." And when they do terrible things, it's caused by "emotional trauma", "mental illness" or a flawed environment.

For example, when James Holmes shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012, killing 12 people and wounding several others, he was considered to be criminally insane. When Adam Lanza gunned down 20 children and six faculty members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012, he was labeled insane.

And when Jared Lee Loughner shot six people to death and wounded 19 others, including Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, outside of a Safeway grocery store in Casas Adobes, Arizona in January 2011, he was considered to be mentally insane. In fact, nearly every mass murderer in modern history has received the insanity label. Some of the more notorious criminals include John Wayne Gacy, Richard "The Night-Stalker" Ramirez and Jeffrey Dahmer. All were considered to be violent psychopaths. 

And yet, there are still some people today who believe in the reality of evil. And they believe that people who commit the kind of atrocities committed by Holmes, Lanza, Ramirez et. al. are wicked rather than insane. One such person is Dr. William Reid, the psychiatrist who spent 22 hours examining Holmes. Reid believes that Holmes was completely sane at the time he committed his crimes, and he believes that Holmes knew exactly what he was doing.

According to Reid: "Whatever he (Holmes) suffered from, it did not stop him from forming the intent and knowing what he was doing and the consequences of what he was doing." When Reid was asked whether Holmes understood the difference between right and wrong when he went on his shooting spree, he replied affirmatively.

http://www.people.com/article/james-holmes-trial-insanity-defense-challenged

Why do leftists deny the reality of evil? Because of their worldview. Their worldview is a complete contradiction and repudiation of the the Judeo-Christian worldview. The leftist worldview teaches that human beings are born "basically good" while the Judeo-Christian worldview teaches that human beings are born with a fallen sinful nature that, left unchecked, will motivate them to do bad things.

Leftists believe that people such as Holmes, Lanza, Loughner etc. do bad things because they are either criminally insane or have been provoked into evil by flaws in the prevailing culture. Thus the difference in the two world views can be summed up this way: The Judeo-Christian worldview teaches that evil begins in the human heart while the leftist worldview teaches that people are motivated to commit bad deeds either by mental illness or by a flawed world.

And so, leftists believe that they can create their own utopia on earth by "perfecting" the world. That's why they embrace the complete control of a tyrannical big government. And if the people refuse to embrace their worldview, then they'll have to be forced to embrace it via fascism.

Stop and think about this: If people are indeed born "basically good", then where does evil come from? How has the world become so utterly corrupt if human beings aren't born with a fallen sinful nature as the Bible teaches? Leftists have no answer for that question, other than to respond that some folks such as Holmes, Lanza and Loughner commit atrocities because they're either insane or they grew up in dysfunctional families.

Here's what Jesus Christ taught concerning the sinful nature that's inherent in all human beings: "What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person." (Mark 7:20-23)

And here's what the apostle Paul wrote in his epistle to the early church in Galatia: "The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21)

When the biblical worldview has dominated society, crime, violence and moral decadence have been restrained. But when the leftist worldview dominates? Unless you're blind, deluded or both, you can see the results. The collapse of western civilization directly coincides with the rise of the leftist worldview and the decline of the Judeo-Christian worldview.

What's caused the decline of the Judeo-Christian worldview in the west? The Christian church stopped contending for the faith (Jude 1:3) and lost its power. That created a moral vacuum that's been filled by leftists.

Or as Solomon wrote nearly 3,000 years ago: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Proverbs 1:7)

Had Holmes, Lanza, Loughner etc. been brought up in the fear and knowledge of the Lord, then it's highly unlikely they would've committed their atrocities. But they were raised in godless, secular households. And because of that, other people were forced to pay a very costly price.