[It is] an article of our secular faith that there is nothing exceptional about human life. --Tom Bethell, science writer

I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be ridiculed for stating that a man is higher than an animal. But then one sees so many things nowadays that one never thought to see.

Admittedly, it is hard sometimes to tell the difference between Congress and a monkey-house. Only after you open your wallet and find your money still in it can you be sure you’ve visited the zoo and not Capitol Hill.

But to get back to being deemed a hick for asserting a qualitative difference between a man and a tomato worm…

Those who say there is no difference are invariably atheists, and that explains their whole position. Indeed, it’s logical. If there is no God, then God did not create man in His image; and if He didn’t, then there can be no special distinction between man and other living things. Do away with God, and you do away with man.

No one is more anti-human than a humanist. Their purpose in dethroning God, they believe, is to elevate man. But in their attempt to raise man up, they only bring him down, reducing him to worms’ meat on the hoof—no Savior, no Redeemer, no immortal soul to save or redeem. Just another animal.

Out of one side of their mouths, they say man is no better than a mosquito. Out of the other, they demand the creation of a messianic state that will abolish poverty, war, disease, inequality, bullying, and burgers cooked with trans-fat. A world government would suit them best: see The Humanist Manifesto II.

But why go to all that trouble for just another animal? You don’t see elites among the aphids promising an earthly paradise for all aphids, if only they’re given the power to impose it.

Once you disavow God, you disavow the possibility of ever locating any transcendent, absolute moral authority, anywhere. There simply is none. We are left with only two sources for authority—“nature,” whatever that is, and the state.

Humanists bend the knee to both. As mere animals obeying the dictates of “nature,” they encourage us to have sex with anyone or anything we can get, to consume as much as we can get away with, and to avoid work whenever possible, even to the extent of living on the fruits of other men’s labors, courtesy of government entitlements to whatever voting bloc needs to be wooed at any given moment..

They realize, of course, that if we all obey “nature” all the time, things will very quickly get out of hand. Somebody has to restrain the serial murderers, the scam artists, the arsonists, and the SUV owners. Hence the state, which the philosopher Hegel described as God walking on earth.

The state, man’s own creation, is the humanists’ substitute for God. The technical term for people who worship their own creation is idolaters.

So you’ve got this mass of mindless, fornicating animals worshiping this big fat idol created by other animals, in the belief that the smart aphids who control the idol will give them a world free of ladybugs, drought, and pesticides. That the smart aphids and their idol are completely unable to fulfill these promises is of no immediate concern.

Silly, isn’t it?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools (Romans 1:22). The biggest chowderheads walking the earth today are the professors and the politicians, the newsies and the pundits and the rock stars in their private jets—the whole self-congratulating mob of secular illuminati who, by their own admission, have no more transcendency or authority or right than a flock of seagulls squawking over garbage at the city dump.

We would much rather have God rule over us, thanks all the same.

Copyright by Lee Duigon

Lee Duigon is a Christian free-lance writer whose work can be seen regularly at www.chalcedon.edu .