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Secularists have been fighting a culture war for many decades, and no one resisted them. The New Age networking movement helps in this effort. Christians have stepped back to let ungodly people control. As we’ve already discovered, ungodliness destroys sound reasoning. Why have we turned over control to secularistic thinkers who refuse to acknowledge the spiritual element of thinking? Christians have often yielded in response to coercion from ungodly thinkers who wrestle for control. A lukewarm church willingly followed the fleshly path set by the ungodly.

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If ungodliness was merely non-belief and without any agenda, ungodly thinkers wouldn’t be trying to make converts. And yet, they are trying to make converts. Ungodly thinkers wouldn’t have a position to defend, but they’re zealous to defend their position. They’re making their case on every medium. Ungodly thinkers wouldn’t try to control the message, but they do try to control the message.

Consider whether there’s any aspect of mass communication where ungodly people and ideas don’t dominate. Ungodly persuaders use mass communication as a weapon. They use news media, social media, entertainment, and education as weapons. Museums, libraries, and social media also act as their brainwashing tools.

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Ungodly persuaders have been successful in pushing their ungodly religion in government and public schools. And, as we’ve just detailed, they push their ungodly religion using the deceptive phrase “separation of church and state,” but they twist the meaning of this phrase by making two claims. First, they falsely claim to have no opinion and no religion. Second, they falsely claim ungodliness is the default position.

By making these two claims consistently and forcefully, they’ve successfully violated the establishment clause of the U. S. Constitution. Similar efforts have succeeded in other countries. They established a religion. They made ungodliness the state religion. It’s the de facto established state religion. They could do it easily since no one was opposing them. The government-funded ungodliness. They taught it in public schools for many decades. Because they’ve successfully used this tactic, the Government uses coercive force against godly people and brainwashes their children.

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Don’t believe the lies of the ungodly. Jesus is exclusive. Only the God of the Bible created the heavens and the earth in six days. Jesus alone is our Savior from sin, death, the power of the devil, the influence of the culture, and the foolishness of our fallen minds.

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Just as with all strongly held ideas, Secularism considers Secularism to be the best way. Secularists argue for Secularism. They defend Secularism if anyone speaks against it. Secularists believe in dogmatically Secularism just as Relativists believe dogmatically in Relativism. Secularists accept all ideas as long as those ideas are Secularistic.

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Just as with all strongly held ideas, Secularism considers Secularism to be the best way. Secularists argue for Secularism. They defend Secularism if anyone speaks against it. Secularists believe in dogmatically Secularism just as Relativists believe dogmatically in Relativism. Secularists accept all ideas as long as those ideas are Secularistic.

“Having a religious belief isn’t a problem and certainly is protected by the Constitution. However, the primary protection in our Constitution is the separation of church and state, so religious beliefs cannot be used to make policy or law.”

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According to secularists, lawmakers must use ungodly thinking as the basis for laws. The statement above pushes for ungodliness as the state-established religion. That violates the Constitution. The Constitution says the U. S. Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Ungodliness isn’t supposed to be the established religion. Any person in any office can freely exercise his or her mind, guided by the Holy Spirit in all the ways the Holy Spirit speaks. That includes God speaking through Scripture. Secularists claim made-up stuff is superior to divine revelation for making laws.

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Secularists have perfected their language to sound innocent like the following:

“Having a religious belief isn’t a problem and certainly is protected by the Constitution. However, the primary protection in our Constitution is the separation of church and state, so religious beliefs cannot be used to make policy or law.”

Two problems plague this statement. First, the term “separation of church and state” isn’t in the Constitution. Rather, it comes from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote. In Jefferson’s letter, the context was the State wouldn’t limit Christians or any other religions. The Constitution doesn’t limit Christians. However, it does limit the power of the state to regulate the free exercise of religion. Therefore, Jefferson used the term “separation of church and state” for just the opposite of what the secularists hope to accomplish. They try to get the state to regulate the exercise of religion.

Second, secularism establishes ungodliness as the state religion, which violates the Constitution. If the state establishes ungodliness as the preferred religion, ungodly people can use their made-up stuff about reality as a guide for making laws. But those who follow Christ can’t allow the love and wisdom that comes from Christ to guide them in making laws. We’re comparing made-up stuff to divine revelation. And how is made-up stuff superior to divine revelation? Why would we pass restrictive laws to limit divine revelation?

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There’s a form of ungodliness called “secularism.” An ungodly person may simply want to avoid God for himself or herself, but secularism goes one step further. Secularism tries to use the power of government to impose ungodliness on everyone.

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Ungodly Thinking

We know Jesus Christ. He guides our thoughts. Ungodliness refuses to acknowledge the spiritual element of life and revelation that flows from God. As a result, many people think and act without God even though they know that thinking and acting without God is ungodly. For example, atheism, agnosticism, materialism, and naturalism are denominations of ungodliness. Yielding to demonic gods is also ungodly and following imagined or created idols is ungodly. Not only so, but at those times when we as Christians fail to follow Christ, we’re thinking and acting godlessly too.

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“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.” ~ James 1:17 Berean Study Bible

And we know that wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are good gifts. Wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are good and perfect gifts, and they come down from the Father.

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Relationship is the Solution

As we started this journey, I told you about how Dr. Jason Lisle shocked me by saying the following:

“Only the fear of the Lord leads to knowledge.”

We looked at the following verse and wondered about the meaning of the word “all.”

“[Christ,] in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.” ~ Colossians 2:3 Berean Literal Bible

On our journey, we’ve found the word “all” includes natural science and everything else. We realized God did mean it when He said the human mind is deceitful and desperately wicked.

We don’t know of a source other than divine revelation for precise and correct knowledge of truth. No one has ever observed accurate information self-generating. So, for those who reject divine revelation, the ungodly-thinking fallacy blocks all rational thought. In other words, basing all thought on made-up stuff is the unavoidable result of ungodly thinking, and no ungodly thinker can escape it. And that proves no one can know anything using ungodly thinking.

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