(July 31, 2015 at 2:00 pm)Alex K Wrote: So far my impression of humanists hasn't been so great, because every time I knowingly encounter one, they pontificate how they are better than atheism and were there long before new atheism and get off my lawn.
It depends on which ones you meet. I have met some who are good. And I have met some who fit in with exactly what you are saying.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.