You cannot have the morals that come from God if one denies the existence of anything above experience. We now can see the outcome of this re-imagining Humanity, for it is coming in full view. It is where good and evil are reversed.

The other day I was reading (again) C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. In his last chapter, Lewis explains the abolition of Man—Humanity or what Francis Schaeffer called the mannishness of man. Lewis speaks of modern man’s attempted conquest of Nature whereby applied science attempts to re-imagine Man. Speaking of those scientists involved Lewis writes: “They are, if you like, men who have sacrifice their own share in traditional humanity in order to devote themselves to the task of deciding what ‘Humanity shall henceforth mean” (76). He explains how this leads to the abolition of Man where Man as a unique created being is treated as a machine.

Here we have the prescient Lewis following the logic of the idea of Progress, where Progress defines both the means and the end of all it promises. Lewis’s book was published in 1947, two years after my birth and two years after the end of WWII. I suspect, if Lewis were to come back today with his prior cognitive faculties, I think he would be surprised how rapidly this tragic program has advanced. When I use the word “advanced” I am not using it in a complimentary sense.

One only needs to read the Humanist Manifesto 2000 to see the plan outlined in detail. It is what is called Planetary Humanism constructed on science alone. While not denying morality, it denies the very reality on which morality can be explained or urged – God. First came the gradual erosion of belief in the realm of the transcendent in which moral principles are grounded. This was the beginning of the abolition of Man for it draws a circle around physical reality and says that is all there is.

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