The New American Babel: Humanism

I love America. It is my homeland, and the home of my ancestors for three hundred years, not even counting my American Indian ancestors. It is as a patriot and a believer that I recognize that she is currently dominated by secular humanism, the religious view that holds that the intellect of men is the standard of morality. Even most professing Christians are actually humanists, judging all things according to whether those things make them feel good.

However, the Bible gives God's answer to humanism: "The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth" (Isaiah 23:9). the more that men lift themselves up, regardless of the Christian terminology they put on it, the more they are setting themselves up to be overthrown. What effect that will have on the nation as a whole, I don't know.

What I do know is that this is not a new problem. it is exactly what happened soon after men started to rebuild after the Flood: "Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth'" (Genesis 11:1-4). So soon after godly Noah, his descendants were pursuing their own glory, just as their predecessors had. However, God witnessed their conspiracy: "And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.' So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth" (Genesis 11:5-9).

The Tower of Babel represented the decision of men to glorify themselves as men. However, God saw and confounded their plans. The issue is that men may reject our place as creatures, and thus God's place as Creator. However, God never does either.

Now, my fear is what God will do to America, when He wearies of her tower of humanism. Every prior empire has been cast down violently. I pray they He will bring repentance before He brings judgment.