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Pagan Lie number 2

Humanity is One

The Baha’i Club (a religion that seeks to join all religions) at UCDavis uses a circle within a circle.  Around the circle we read:  “God is one’ humanity is one; all religions are one.”  This second principle of monism flows naturally from the first.  If all is one and one is all, then humanity is part of God, an expression of divine oneness.  Humans are a kind of concentrated cosmic energy who create their own reality.  Belief that humans are divine, and essentially good, explains today’s quest for personal spiritual discovery and the hope that we can create heaven on earth. This monistic humanism becomes a very attractive path to religious and social utopia.

In a 1983 issue of the Humanist we see that people were already seeking a deeply religious humanism to replace atheism.  The article asked classroom teachers to wage a battle for the future of humanity. “The classroom must become an arena of conflict between the old and the new – the rotting corpse of Christianity … and the new faith of humanism resplendent with its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of ‘love thy neighbor’ will finally be achieved.”  By find God in ourselves, monist hope to break down the divisions in our world and accomplish God’s loving work by uniting with one another.

If we are little holograms of divinity – smaller, cloned versions of the great divine circle – then we are uncreated and eternal.  We are as old as God!  We are outside the jurisdiction of nay authority – a kingless generation.  What need have we to submit to outside rule?  If we are God, if we are as old as God, then we can make our own rules.

We can also decide our own truth. Each person contributes his piece of truth by constructing his own version of reality.  When it all comes together, it makes some kind of mystical, nonsensical sense.  This explains why tolerance is so important.  Each self is a source of truth, so each must be tolerated, even encouraged.

This monistic thinking explains such programs as the “values clarification” in the public schools.  In the LA school district, one profession, using government money, teaches children “Each person creates his or her own reality by choosing what to perceive and how to perceive it … Once we begin to perceive that we are all God … the whole purpose of life is to re-own Godlikeness within us.”  Children refer to their natural, inner force and abandon themselves to what feels right.  They are encouraged to discover their natural sexuality as well as their own belief system.  The individual is the final judge of all.  Intuition is the inviting bridge over which we stroll, in calm self-affirmation, into human freedom and into oneness with the universe.

Monism hates a system that creates categories and makes distinctions.  Of course, monism, in spite of it claim to tolerance, also creates distinctions – especially between those who agree that there is only one circle and those who know that there is Creator.  There isn’t much place for Christians in this soft but suffocating circle.

Questions:

What are some signs of global unity today?

Should Christians resist of fear forms of globalism – cultural, commercial, financial, political and religious? (see Ps. 24:1; Matt. 28: 19-20; Acts 13:47; Rev. 11:15)

What are the implications of the growing, evil alliance between religion and politics?  Will the church triumph? What experiences might Christians have? (See Ps. 2:2; Joel 3; Rev. 13: 5-10; 20: 7-10).

Are we close to this time of global unity? (See Mark 13:10; Luke 21: 24; Rom. 11: 25; Rev. 13: 11-17; 17: 15-17)