Friday, March 25, 2011

A Global Secular Government

To start this off, I would like to say that there will never be a global secular government. There are a ton of countries and with contradicting ideas and philosophies that would make one peaceful world government impossible in this sinful world.

Secular Humanisnm, along with other competing worldviews of today's societies such as Marxism and Cosmic Humanism, all seek to create a unified world government. For example, because we are focusing on a secular global government, let's focus on what a secular humanist global government would be like. Secular world government entails "A non-religious political body that would make, interpret, and enforce a set of international laws" (Noebel 333). Secular Humanists beleive that this can actually be achieved. However, as Christians, who understand that we are all sinful realize that it is not only impossible to achieve a secular world government, but it would also be a bad idea. Reasons for this include:

First and foremost, this world is sinful. By creating one world government, we would be achieving what these worldviews long for, which is essentially a utopia. This is impossible. A utopia would imply that there would be no flaws or disagreements, but because we are sinful this is impossible.

Secondly, as already briefly mentioned, everyone has different ideologies and ethics. How is it possible to have one form of government that appeals to everyone while they all have different ideologies? It is impossible.

Thirdly, as part of those idealogies, comes the idea of morals. Every worldview has its different views of morals. Ideally, since as Christians we know that God has established his morals through our conscience and mind and the Bible, and that we would have to be in a perfect world, in order that everyone beleive in the same morals. This is not the case though.

One must realize that there is no possibility that there will ever be a unified, worldwide government. There would be more problems and much more chaos if the was a global secular government because it would not be religious and those who have their own religous opinions wouldn't be able to tolerate it causing conflict and chaos. As sinful human beings, we will never be able to achieve a utopia, or even a worldwide government.

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