Eric209 Wrote:I strongly agree with the council for secular humanism.
What is that? 0.o
Quote:Need to test beliefs
Why the requirement and for what goal?
Quote:Reason, evidence, scientific method
What of them?
Quote:Fulfillment, growth, creativity
Of whom and to what end?
Quote:Search for truth
Why the bother?
Quote:This life
Which constitutes 'this'?
Quote:Ethics
Along what lines?
Quote:Building a better world
Who's understanding of better and for whom?
Quote:and the International Humanist and Ethical union
Who are they and why do you strongly agree with them?
Quote:Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. It stands for the building of a more humane society through an ethic based on human and other natural values in the spirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities.
Democracy is the tyranny of the masses. 'Ethical life stance' is meaningless until the underlined morality is defined. 'Rights' are illusory. Asserting an existentialistic viewpoint as a 'fact' is self defeating.
What is a humane society and what are these 'natural values' and what is this mystical 'spirit of reason' and what is this 'free inquiry' which 'human capabilities' provide?
Quote:It is not theistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality.
It sure could have fooled me
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
