Letter to the Editor

Christianity Today

sent 27 Dec 2004

Dear Editor,

In his excellent essay (That Other Church, January 2005), David Klinghoffer suggests that we treat Secularism is the alternate religion it is. He observes that, like all religions, it has "a strict ethical code ... the use of shame ... a related promise of eternal life through medical advances; a creation story (Darwinian evolution) ... all that's missing is a deity." But Secularism clearly HAS a deity, revealed in the old humanist phrase "man is the measure of all things." Idealistic secularists raise 'mankind' or 'humanity' to the supreme position, inevitably yielding later to more jaded and disillusioned 'me-ism' (or, as Pastor Darryl Delhousaye of Scottsdale Bible Church loves to say, worship of the 'holy trinity; me, myself and I').

Steve Sawyer