A great post by a friend of a friend at The Camp of the Saints:

A special guest post by my friend, The Rev. David R. Graham…

Humanism is a perversion of a truth.

The truth is we belong to one another. Minerologically, morphologically, physiologically, psychologically and spiritually we are united. All life is one, directly, without need of mediation.

Humanism throws in a mediator, government, and thereby destroys our unity. Humanism has to throw in a mediator because it won’t accept the truth that we are united. Humanism rests on denial, criticism.

Government is for protection of our unity. Government cannot mediate our unity because our unity is the prius of government.

The failure of humanism raises its antithesis, anti-humanism.

Humanism has ancient roots. Modernly, it traces to Abelard, Erasmus, Rousseau, Dewey and Whitehead. Its premise is tripartite and simple: (1) educate everyone (2) in the liberal arts (3) to produce world peace. Humanism, to humanists, is civilization and nothing else is.

The political and social zenith of humanism was the United States Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson’s humanism was seconded before and after his political career by some robber barons and by many of their sons and daughters down to the present day in a great outpouring of time, money and energy for “human betterment.”

However, the impossibility of educating everyone, the limited value of liberal arts education and the nonsense that liberally educated people are peaceful breached the humanist premise even as Wilson strode the White House and his wealthy supports wrote checks. We call it World War One.

Humanists’ response to World War One was not to scrutinize their premise, not either part of it, but rather to blame their students for non-compliance, even obduracy. Humanists did what gamblers call “doubling down” and Einstein called “insanity”: they assumed their premise correct in all parts, kept at it and warned students to accept humanist education or be ostracized from the orbit of peace (implying, livability).

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