RE: How many reasonable solutions are there to any particular social issue?
April 1, 2020 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2020 at 1:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn't have to be - no more so than any other religion. I'll refer again to the anthropological definition of religion in thread. A believer can be alone and not in a position to arrange whatever services or organization would be required. In the 70's a prisoner made exactly this claim - insisting that his religious convictions deserved reasonable accommodation as per law. The american humanist association took up his case.
-but..hopefully, it can be even more organized, it would have to be - to be a credible voting bloc.
But as for organization and any distinction, there is no organization required of religious humanism that is not also required of secular humanism. To be a secular humanist you must subscribe to a minimum set of principles or ideas. They are the same set required for religious humanism. This is all the organization required...and it is required... to be a humanist of any kind. Let's consider additional organization though. What would a humanist "church service" look like? Volunteering. Donating. Any gathering where humanists reassert their principles amongst each other. This board could hold or even -be- an impromptu humanist church service. I'm reminded of magic book...lol. Any place where two or more gather.
The secular refers to other religions, not religious humanism - humanism as a religion (or any number of other religions not involved in the development of the terms because they did not yet exist). This is just a fun consequence of how successful humanism has become. A humanist simply cannot object to religious humanism on it's own ground, or theirs, because the ground is shared. They believe -exactly- the same things. The religious qualifier is one of experienced content - not ideological or propositional content. They feel the numinous in humanism. Others may not - and that's fine(but I do doubt it).
That's it, that's all there is to religious humanism - as opposed to the religious who .....sometimes, sorta.... flirt with humanism.
-but..hopefully, it can be even more organized, it would have to be - to be a credible voting bloc.
But as for organization and any distinction, there is no organization required of religious humanism that is not also required of secular humanism. To be a secular humanist you must subscribe to a minimum set of principles or ideas. They are the same set required for religious humanism. This is all the organization required...and it is required... to be a humanist of any kind. Let's consider additional organization though. What would a humanist "church service" look like? Volunteering. Donating. Any gathering where humanists reassert their principles amongst each other. This board could hold or even -be- an impromptu humanist church service. I'm reminded of magic book...lol. Any place where two or more gather.
The secular refers to other religions, not religious humanism - humanism as a religion (or any number of other religions not involved in the development of the terms because they did not yet exist). This is just a fun consequence of how successful humanism has become. A humanist simply cannot object to religious humanism on it's own ground, or theirs, because the ground is shared. They believe -exactly- the same things. The religious qualifier is one of experienced content - not ideological or propositional content. They feel the numinous in humanism. Others may not - and that's fine(but I do doubt it).
That's it, that's all there is to religious humanism - as opposed to the religious who .....sometimes, sorta.... flirt with humanism.
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