Secular Humanism is now a "religion"

[Ben Davis]

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NO it is not. This short term well intended tactic misses long term human behavior. It is easy to focus on the compassion of today in one group, but that misses the point that anything that forms a group IN ANY ASPECT of a society, be it political party, business, nationalism OR RELIGION, can in the future go on to become abusive.

Religion is poison and anything can be a religion, meaning being married to an idea. We are NOT a separate species and we have always been capable of the same range of cruelty and compassion.

Our behavior is not dictated by the labels we invent or the ideas we come up with. It isn't that we should never have ideas or form groups, but that we as a species fail to see the bigger evolutionary picture.

I do NOT have everything in common with other atheists, or even everything in common with liberals, even if I agree with many of the compassionate ideas they have.

There still are other atheists who do not share the same economic views such as Ayn Rand atheists. And I also do not agree with political correctness as a tactic to keep the peace.


We will always be a diverse species even within the same camps. We are still individuals. We can have our labels and clubs and form groups without elevating it to the dogmatic level of the word "religion".

Nothing in life should ever be set up to a dogmatic level and "religion" is the worst way humans group. It allows us to focus too much on our differences and not enough on our common existence.

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Interesting. So you're saying that the principle of mass association (the ready ability of humans to form large groups with common themes) is ultimately self-defeating due to the nature of individuality and the way that some people express it?

But what of groups like the humanists who aren't dogmatic? They have a set of shared principles and common beliefs at the high-level, yes (which is why the court granted them this case) but there's no humanist rulebook, no tenets of faith, no indoctrinal rote learning. I'd also suggest that as humanity develops further, the shared principles to which humanism subscribes would be subject to change.