It was recently reported that the Boy Scouts of America were denied the use of a facility within the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., where an honors banquet had been scheduled. The Boy Scouts are frequent targets of vilification by homosexual advocates and secularists. Their offense this time kept them out of the public use of the Smithsonian's premises.
The offense? Using "under God" in the pledge of allegiance to the USA. The Smithsonian reportedly declared that such usage is "intolerant" and therefore intolerable to them (notwithstanding the obvious self-contradiction).
The secularization movement punishes all who claim an ultimate allegiance to a being that is higher than the people in the government. This was acceptable to a nation that believed that its human rights were bestowed by its Creator, and that those rights were not dependent upon a current government but existed outside and beyond that government.
But no more. The concept of Creator-derived rights is not acceptable to a nation beset with official Atheist relativist, situational ethics-of-convenience. Rights are now derived through being sufficiently annoyed to cause a lawsuit, which is presented to a sympathetic court. The government then bestows the novel right not to be annoyed in this particular fashion. Is government control of one's rights a good thing?
Situational meanings are also a feature of secularism, where "tolerance" means tolerance of only Atheism and its offshoots, and also means extreme intolerance of all other worldviews. Undoubtedly a "humanist" group or a group of "Skeptics" or "Freethinkers" would have been granted access with open arms. Such groups of philosophical materialists and anti-ecclesiast radicals would not offend anyone that the Smithsonian cares about. Only the hated theism is discriminated against. In fact such intolerance is being institutionalized as yet another court-instituted "right".
Perhaps the USA will become the Union of Secular Atheists. If so, it won't last long. Secularism is, in the end, totalitarian. It will ultimately collapse of its own paradoxes.
2 comments:
Where did you get your information that the Boy Scouts were denied use of the Smithsonian for this reason.
Radio Newscast.
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