Humanism and the Terrible Twos

Christianity is more intellectually mature than humanism. Most humanists espouse a system which rejects the notion of an extrinsically existent God, and focuses on self-realization rather than obedience. When God-language is retained, God becomes not a person, but a shorthand for the most desirable good for ourselves. He does not exist in any meaningful sense except as a symbol for what we are not, but are trying to become. But of course, were we ever to become perfectly good, we should be deserving of worship and obedience, and then the whole process of denying our existence in order to achieve our autonomy would have to begin over again. It is really a matter of convenience that we retain just a bit of injustice. This is really the basis of the humanist system: to hold onto our own autonomy. We cannot bear to think that another Person may know better than us what our own good is. But this simply reveals our own immaturity. It is the two-year-old who always demands his own way. It is the adult who knows when to be silent and obey. The greatest lie that our society has engendered is that unquestioning obedience is always an evil. For if God is perfectly good and wise, and He tells us to do something, then by definition disobedience is error, and the only person who actually wants to be in error is the person who is too prideful to admit that he isn’t God.