ACLU's 'Search and Destroy' Agenda

The Framers believed that religious liberty was vital and requires a separation of church and state to protect churches and individuals from government intervention.  In order to sustain a self-governing republic there must be a moral citizenry.  The Framers, which included President George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, viewed religion as necessary for morality.   In other words, morality is necessary for a republican government to survive.   
 
Herein lies the problem.  Christianity contends that morality does not depend on individual preferences.  According to Charles W. Carter, "The Biblical morality is based upon a fourfold assumption, or faith. First, it assumes the existence of a personal, supreme and sovereign God, a God so absolutely sovereign that He can afford to allow a high degree of freedom within His realms. … Second, it assumes that God is Himself a moral being. In the third place it assumes that God has personally revealed His essential moral character and will to man. And, fourth, it assumes the ability of man to receive God's revelation of His moral character and will, and to act in accordance therewith."
 
In his recent commentary Albert Mohler contends that America is in the midst of a great battle of worldviews. What he calls "a conflict over the most basic issues of truth and meaning. A worldview that starts with the existence and sovereign authority of the self-revealing God of the Bible will be diametrically opposed to worldviews that deny God or engage in what we might call 'defining divinity down.' At the heart of this controversy lies the irreducible obstacle of biblical authority. As a matter of fact, it may be impossible to overestimate the true depth of postmodern antipathy to the Bible--at least to the Bible as an authoritative revelation from God." [2]

The ACLU vs. Christianity comes down to a collision between two opposing worldviews. Nancy Pearcey calls it the "secular and the sacred."  The conflict will never be resolved. How can it be when the Christian worldview is seen through the prism of the Bible and the secular worldview is seen through the prism of the Secular Humanist bible, the Humanist Manifesto.  According to Christiananswers.net the Humanist Manifesto is a living growing faith,
 
"Not all humanists, though, want to be identified as 'religious,' because they understand that religion is (supposedly) not allowed in American public education. To identify Secular Humanism as a religion would eliminate the Humanists' main vehicle for the propagation of their faith. And it is a faith, by their own admission. The Humanist Manifestos declare:

'These affirmations [in the Manifestos] are not a final credo or dogma but an expression of a living and growing faith.'" [3]

The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry (CARM) describes a worldview thus:
 
"[It] is a set of presuppositions and beliefs that someone uses to interpret and form opinions about his humanity, purpose in life, duties in the world, responsibilities to family, interpretation of truth, social issues, etc." 
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