RE: How many reasonable solutions are there to any particular social issue?
March 31, 2020 at 7:57 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2020 at 8:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Religion-
Humanism(of any kind) is an explicit claim on these goods. Insomuch as a god or religion's interests and man's interests are in conflict, secular humanism eschews the divine, ofc.
However - a religion does not have to trade in higher powers...so that can't be a reason that anything isn't a religion - and secular humanism does have a "higher power" anyway. In humanism (of any kind), human being. There is no distinction between secular humanism and religious humanism in principle. The secular aspect most often refers to their reaction towards -outside- religious elements.
I'll have to keep All Twisty in mind for my next name change.
I waste alot of time reading about this stuff,lol. It probably helps to say that I'm not anti-religious. When I point out that something is amenable to and can be a religion - I'm noting that it is and has been. It's not some novel argument or a criticism of humanism. I also think that humanism has alot of potential to create a voting bloc - and would point to the abrahamics success as predictive of that. Claims on the set apart and forbidden, claims that unite all those who adhere to them into a single moral community, compel us to action.
Quote:a unified set of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden, — beliefs and practices which unite [into] one single moral community, all those who adhere to themDurkheim [1915] 1964: 37 cited in Morris 1987.
Humanism(of any kind) is an explicit claim on these goods. Insomuch as a god or religion's interests and man's interests are in conflict, secular humanism eschews the divine, ofc.
However - a religion does not have to trade in higher powers...so that can't be a reason that anything isn't a religion - and secular humanism does have a "higher power" anyway. In humanism (of any kind), human being. There is no distinction between secular humanism and religious humanism in principle. The secular aspect most often refers to their reaction towards -outside- religious elements.
I'll have to keep All Twisty in mind for my next name change.
I waste alot of time reading about this stuff,lol. It probably helps to say that I'm not anti-religious. When I point out that something is amenable to and can be a religion - I'm noting that it is and has been. It's not some novel argument or a criticism of humanism. I also think that humanism has alot of potential to create a voting bloc - and would point to the abrahamics success as predictive of that. Claims on the set apart and forbidden, claims that unite all those who adhere to them into a single moral community, compel us to action.
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