I think Gene Veith's post (below) extremely important. As Humanism deconstructs, it is Christians who will be left virtually alone to advocate the dignity of humankind.
The End of Humanism Remember how humanism used to compete with Christianity? How "secular humanism" exalted human beings and made deities out of us? Well, you can hardly find that particular religion anymore. Postmodernists routinely ridicule humanism, deconstructing the notion that human beings are all that great, or capable, or valuable.
Now we have Professor Eric Pianka of the University of Texas-Arlington telling the Texas Academy of Science--to a standing ovation--that "we're no better than bacteria" and calling for the use of the Ebola virus to exterminate 90% of the world's population, so as to save the planet.
This sort of thinking is not all that rare on college campuses. Certainly the animal rights activists, ethicist Peter Singer, and others, in insisting that human beings are no different at all from animals and that animals in some ways should be privileged over human life, are, literally, anti-humanist. Humanists, of course, having rejected the Christian underpinnings for human rights and the value of human life, had no basis for their assertions, and now their philosophy is in shambles. Notice again, as I keep saying and demonstrating in my book "Modern Fascism," postmodernism, by contrast, provides the underpinnings for totalitarianism, brutality, and holocaust. In the meantime, it will be up to Christians to be the advocates for human life and dignity. Now that "secular humanism" is being exterminated, we can rehabilitate an old Reformation term and cultivate a "Christian humanism."
I regard Gene Veith's book mentioned above, Modern Fascism: Liquidating the Judeo-Christian Worldview, as one of the more important books I have read in the past several years.
HT: Smart Christian