RE: Ask a Secular Humanist!
March 18, 2018 at 7:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2018 at 7:18 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(March 18, 2018 at 4:54 pm)chimp3 Wrote:(March 18, 2018 at 4:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I mean, it's 2 different fields. Science is the study of the physical world around us. That doesn't mean the person who studies the world can't also go to church on sundays and believe in God. "Secular humanism", based on your definition, sounds like it actually opposes belief in God.
No! Only in that we seek earthly solutions to earthly problems. A believer can join in an earthly approach to a problem - such as finding a cure for a disease - then go to church a pray for gods help. On an earlier thread you mentioned Lemaitre and the Big Bang. I would also include Martin Luther King. He advocated for changing minds, laws, and morality. He did not advocate for angels coming to our rescue. His "letter from a Birmingham Jail" is one of the greatest humanist treatise ever written:
https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Ge...ngham.html
Ah, ok, I understand now. And yeah, that's how it should be for all religious folks. It would be presumptuous to not actually DO anything except pray and expect God to divinely intervene every time there is a problem in the world. In that case, being a humanist is just being a normal person lol.
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