Secularism as Protestant Heresy
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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Secularism is not a workable common sense solution for getting along in a pluralistic society. Secularism is simply apostasy and godlessness. And the fact that there are numerous Protestant theologians and ministers who are privately orthodox, and who would never themselves burn incense to the Queen of heaven on their own rooftops, but who nevertheless publicly argue for a “neutral” public square illustrates—as few other things could illustrate—that the heresy of secularism has made deep inroads among us. Nothing else can account for such confusion.
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| 0:00.0 | Secularism as Protestant heresy, April 13, 2026. |
| 0:12.1 | Introduction. It is an old error and an old trick to blame the straight road for the behavior |
| 0:17.2 | of those who veered off it. This is like blaming a math class for those who flunked |
| 0:21.4 | out of it. And while there are times when an orthodox math class had a terrible teacher, |
| 0:26.0 | and consequently share some of the responsibility, it is still not the part of wisdom to blame the |
| 0:30.9 | straight for those who bend it crooked. Some Roman Catholic apologists will want to take what I |
| 0:35.3 | acknowledge here below and say that Protestantism |
| 0:38.2 | is essentially to blame for the secularism we see around us. But this is the post hoc fallacy, |
| 0:43.4 | after this, therefore, because of this. If that reasoning were sound, we could say that the Roman |
| 0:47.6 | Church was the cause of the Reformation, which, come to think of it, it was. Why isn't that the |
| 0:52.3 | post hoc fallacy? Another subject for another time. |
| 0:55.3 | For the present, I do want to argue that secularism, our current spiritual disease, is a |
| 1:00.4 | Protestant heresy. Further, I want to argue that America was founded as a uniquely |
| 1:04.7 | Protestant nation, and consequently has been the place where this particular heresy has taken |
| 1:09.6 | the deepest root. This is not the |
| 1:11.5 | fault of the Protestant faith itself, as some would have it, but it is the responsibility of |
| 1:15.9 | Protestant ministers to know something about the history of this, and to be apprised of how this |
| 1:20.6 | deadly temptation works. If you're a guide in the mountains, you should know where the cliff edges are. |
| 1:25.4 | If you are a pilot at sea, you need to understand where the reefs are. If you are a packer of parachutes, you should know where the cliff edges are. If you are a pilot at sea, you need to understand where the reefs are. |
| 1:28.9 | If you are a packer of parachutes, you should know which three mistakes are the most deadly ones. |
| 1:33.5 | And if you are a Protestant minister, you should understand how the secularists came in to spy out our liberty and how they turned it over to license. |
| 1:41.4 | First, an old indictment reapplied. If this section seems to you as though I'm |
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