BBB:Humanism in Seventh Day Adventism by Peter Ruckman (This is a continuation of Dr. Ruckman's critique of a publication by the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Ministry: International Journal for Clergy), which is filled with "earmarks" of humanism in modern Christian vocabulary. 19. "THE INSIGHT THAT GIVES NEW PERSPECTIVES." This phrase has never been connected one time in the history of civilization with ANY new knowledge anyone got on ANYTHING. It is a hackneyed cliche meaning "By altering the truth we look at sin in a better light." It is an earmark of a jackass. 20. "COPING, SHARING, AND CARING." All three mean about the same thing: survival making people think they are equal, and taking money out of other people's pockets to make friends with. The word "COPING" meant to "deal with something" or to "handle a situation." Now it means since there is "stress" and "tension" (two more hackneyed cliches) all the time in dealing with anyone, anywhere, in any situation, you have to become an expert in "coping" and therefore have to have three hundred semester hours from a preacher, minister, teacher, or "counsellor" on how to keep your wife from suing you, your kids from running away from home, or how to avoid a complete nervous and mental breakdown. These are the substitutes for CHARACTER and WISDOM, which can "cope" with anything including divorce, fornication, adultery, AIDS, depression, debt, poverty, war, sickness, hell, or the devil. You can "COPE" without CHARACTER or WISDOM, so the watchword is "coping." "SHARING" is a word like "science"; it can mean anything and can be applied to any operation. You don't preach the word, you "share it." You don't witness for Christ, you "share Him." You don't quote a verse of Scripture, you "share it." You don't take up an offering or receive an offering, you "share it." You don't broadcast a message, you "share it." You don't give anyone a dime, you "share" your wealth, etc. THE WORD IS FROM MARXISM; it is a reference to you giving away (under military pressure) what belongs to you to support those who are dedicated to taking every last dime you've got. "CARING" means you read a MORAL IMPLICATION into the Civil Rights Act, the Great Society, the War on Poverty, etc., so that you are compelled to encourage race-mixing, acceptance of homosexuals, free handouts to bums, government jobs for Communists and double taxation to take care of illegitimate children and abortions. In such a godless soup the Bible is "out of sight." 21. An "IN-DEPTH STUDY," i.e., shallow as a mud puddle and just as muddy. There are no "in-depth" studies in ninety percent of the publications that profess such a thing. An "in- depth" study usually means a lot of nonessentials are covered that have nothing to do with anything and a lot of ancient, destructive material from the fourth century, B.C. (philosophers) is resurrected. In the case of Bible studies it simply means a REHASH of dead orthodox apostates from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. The latest "in-depth study of dope heads" refers to DRUNKARDS as "SUBSTANCE ABUSERS." 22. "THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH IN MOTIVATING." Blank. The "role" is a blank, the "motivating" is blank. One term is from international socialists in the NEA, the other is from salesmanship tapes and videos that began with The Power of Positive Thinking. They are earmarks. 23. "GUIDED CONFRONTATION." A substitute for the "encounter." THERE ARE NO CONFRONTATIONS; the guy is in FRONT of you, or BEHIND you, or BESIDE you, or slap out of sight. In sports it is called "one-on-one" (a "face-off" in hockey), but "inner support groups" who are "emotionally involved" have more "impact" on the "data" because "alternatives" can be suggested, etc., BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. THESE ARE NOT BIBLE BELIEVING PEOPLE NOR ARE THEY RELATED TO THEM. These are AMATEUR PSYCHOLOGISTS who worship the gods of the NEA and the NAACP. So here we have given a very brief sampling of what we may call "THE EARMARKS OF THE JACKASS": the puffed-up and bloated "educator" who is trying to impress people with his knowledge of psychology, sociology, and the "humanities." The language is replete with terms from computers, the college lab, the Associated Press, CBS, NBC, the Charismatics, and above all the AMORAL, NON-ETHICAL, non-committed, undefinable GENERALIZATIONS of the National Education Association, which has fought for fifty years to produce a vocabulary that avoids any reference to RIGHT and WRONG or GOOD and EVIL. Modern fundamentalists have at last yielded to the temptation to pose as "educators" and so have picked up the vocabulary. You can spot the earmarks every time. "PRIORITIES," "TOTAL THRUST," "the dynamics of the matter," "clarification of values," "utilizing the criteria," "meaningful relationships," "ultimate validation," "religious affirmation" (Affirmative Action), "commitment," "FOCUS," "in terms of," "sectarian mentality," "significant thrust," "related structure," "enriched curriculum," "where the minority can IDENTIFY," "a scientific breakthrough," "a new era of dialogue," "the IMPACT of this ministry," "restructuring VALUES," "counterproductive," etc., etc. THESE ARE THE MARKS. They are the marks of a Christian WHO IS SPENDING HIS TIME DAY AND NIGHT WITH TV, MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS, AND SMOOTH, SLICK LITERATURE. The entire vocabulary is removed TOTALLY from Biblical attitude, approach, concepts (there is one!), teaching, application, or spirit. And, strangely enough, the men who are the farthest REMOVED from Biblical Christianity are the ones who keep recommending (and translating and revising) "new," more "readable" translations in order to get people interested in the Bible. THESE MEN ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE BIBLE. They refer to the Bible believers as a cult or as "Ruckmanites." Their strong suit is DEPRAVED EGOTISM. Their VOCABULARY gives them away. It is not the STREET VOCABULARY of any generation that needs the word of God in "common language" in order to "understand" its message; it is the CLASSICAL CLASSROOM VOCABULARY OF THE UNSAVED AMATEUR SOCIOLOGIST WHO IS TRYING TO IMPRESS PEOPLE WITH HIS "UP- TO-DATENESS." He haw! Jackasses can be spotted by their EAR marks. If you want your "teenager" to be able to "adjust" to the "contemporary LIFESTYLES" of the "nuclear age," so that his life will be "meaningfully relevant"--since it is properly motivated by "Christian principles"-- then SHARE an EDUCATIVE OPPORTUNITY with him to "enrich him" in the areas of "coping" and "caring" so that he may "reach out and touch" those "church related ministries" where "receptors and communicators" can VALIDATE the renewed EMPHASIS on the EXPANDED world view; i.e., plug the sucker into a college curriculum and watch him come out as a jackass. "SLANG" IS MORE SCIPRUTRAL THAN A COLLEGE CURRICULUM IN SOCIOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES. SLANG is the COMMON, ORDINARY STREET LANGUAGE of any generation. Where your speech is not BIBLICAL from the book--heaven, hell, right, wrong, good, bad, just, unjust, white, black, up, down, hot, cold, compassion, hardness, sin, death, devil, dung, vile, filthy, righteous, holy, godly, ungodly, fool, ass, hypocrite, saint, reprobate, faith, hope, charity, bless, curse, revile, damnation, eternal, etc.--the best thing for you to use is the language you hear on the street, in the stadium, in the hospital, at the police station, in the barracks, in the barrooms, on the car lots, and in the stores. "SOUND SPEECH THAT CANNOT BE CONDEMNED" would of course EXCLUDE filthy language of references to pornography, fornication, etc., in THOSE vocabularies, but don't kid yourself; muttonhead, meatball, sucker, bombed out, "the pits," jackleg, "tap city," blockhead, lush, drunk, dope head, bum, idiot, stuffed shirt, stumble bum, apostate, klutz, wimp, droid, goon, rubber room, and funny farm are SOUND LANGUAGE AND SOUND SPEECH compared to the socialistic drivel that you are getting from modern "militant" colleges and universities. They follow the world's PRECEPTS and EXAMPLE, and their vocabular betrays them; they are out to IMPRESS, not bless; they are for self- promotion instead of discipleship; they stand for TOP-HEAVY, HIGH MINDEDNESS, not spiritual humility; and they are in the MONEY racket, not the BIBLE BRACKET. Hearken to the braying in the pastures! See the long ears? See how they tickle (II Tim. 4:1-6)? "Insight, reinforced, restructured, areas, total, dynamic, thrust, meaningful, values, roles, resources, enrichment, involvement, commitment, principles, criteria, validation, programmed, communicate, touch, share, care, relate, relationship, outreach, conceptual, evolves, priorities, corporate lif, more vocal, role models, self-image, low profile, self-rejection, in touch with oneself, world processor, graphics, etc." HEAR THE PRETTY LITTLE DUMBBELL, HONEY? See the little college-educated jackass, flopping his ears? CLASS DISMISSED GENTLEMEN-- PLEASE DON'T FLOP YOUR EARS AS YOU LEAVE" (saying from the 1930s).