“Mankind is capable of rejecting God,”
I don’t know that I reject any god.
I reject the claims people make of gods.
I haven’t seen a reason to think that there is a god to reject.
Like, I don’t ‘reject’ Krom, the god Conan worships. I just think that he only exists in a work of fiction.
“and when we do that, we worship some aspect of His creation which we regard as divine,”
I don’t think I’m worshiping anything, either.
“or ‘just there’ So in pagan religions such as pre-dated Christianity in these islands, they worship the sun, the rain, fertility and all the things which are important to their economy.”
Um, fertility is kind of more important than to the economy. The whole of society needs new generations. ‘Economy’ sounds like you’re trying too hard to sound clinical.
“In doing that, they diminish man himself and they soon end up with human sacrifice.”
Blood sacrifice doesn’t diminish humans. If anything, we’re saying that humans are powerful enough that we can influence a god’s plans by offering a virgin.
If we can bribe the president with money, that doesn’t diminish money.
“Well, every pagan culture has, and it’s usually their children they sacrifice.”
Citation needed.
Aztecs and most of the Pacific Islanders, far as I know, sacrificed their enemies/prisoners of war, not their children.
I don’t recall the Norse sacrificing their kids, either.
Are you just flogging stereotypes?
“But atheism (or ’secular humanism’) itself is a form of paganism,”
Hahahahaha! Words have meanings, idiot.
“in which man worships mankind and mankind’s powers of reason,”
Worship is the wrong word for ‘values’ and ‘produces results with.’
"Secular humanism is the dominant culture in Britain today, and we too, kill our own children, before they are born, in special clinics.”
Not as a ritual, though.
Sacrifices are when believers give up something they want.
No one gives up fire ants or wasp stings for Lent.
Abortions are giving up things we do NOT want. Totally different.
“Not much of an advance from the civilisation of ancient Canaan, is it, really?”
You’re way too wrong to be this smug, moron.