We already know that the folks over at Liberty Counsel believe that secular humanism is a religion, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise when, on today’s installment of the “Faith and Freedom” radio program, Shawn Akers explained that the religion of secular humanism even has its own Trinity – Darwin, Marx, and Freud:
I’ll tell you something that’s really interesting, Ron. There was a poet by the name of William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” around the early 1900s and his idea was that every two thousand years, a new God arises. And it was kind of striking that, after two thousand years after Christ, about the time that Yeats wrote this poem, no new God was to be found, or at least we didn’t think so.
But it was about that time Darwin came on the scene and told us that you really created yourself by dragging yourself out of the primordial ooze and evolving faster then all the other species. And Marx came along and told us really that religion is the opiate of the masses, that if you’re going to be fed, you’re going to feed yourself. And then Freud came along and said if you don’t feel good about yourself, don’t look to a god to heal you, you got to dig down deep in yourself through psychoanalysis and you’re your own counselor.
What I find interesting about that, Ron, is that we took the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – the father that told us where we came from, that I created you in the beginning, we took the Son that said I’ll tell you that I’m going to feed you and heal you and tell you how to find your substance, and we took the counselor, the Holy Spirit, and we put Freud in his place and said you counsel yourself.
In other words, the new god that arose under Yeats’ scheme was secular humanism. It was making man god.
This is a pretty interesting theory, aside from the fact that the works of Marx and Darwin had been published more then a half-century before Yeats’ poem and both men had already been dead for nearly forty years.
