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The European Union (EU) is seen by many as one of humanity's greatest achievements and one of the best hopes for achieving peace and prosperity. Preserving peace between the major powers in Europe is unquestionably important, given Europe's bloody history.
In our troubled world, international institutions such as the EU and UN seem to be humanity's best hope—apart from God. And currently the EU is quite apart from God. Its driving philosophy is secular and humanistic.
The committee that drafted the proposed constitution for the EU was challenged about the lack of reference to God in its documents. A French member of the committee explained, "We don't like God" (quoted by Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream, 2004, p. 211).
Another member of the drafting convention argued, "The only banner that we have is secularism" (ibid.). As more nations seek to join today's secular and prosperous EU, modernists feel that God is a quaint concept of the past. Beyond the EU, this wave of humanistic thinking seems to be sweeping the Western world.
Humanism basically says that man can discover on his own the truth he needs to survive and prosper.
Can a humanist make it rain?
But is it really possible for nations to continue to flourish without God's help? Mortal man must be sustained by the fruit of the land and, regardless of one's politics, without food man won't be around to argue for very long. Can man bring the rains so necessary for our crops?
The Bible tells us the true source of rain and the food we depend on: "Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for You, since You have made all these" (Jeremiah 14:22).
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