RE: Atheists; what do you base your morals on?
March 12, 2013 at 2:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 2:34 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 12, 2013 at 2:30 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Just what do you think authoritarian humanism would entail? Humanism being a collection of things which stresses the value of human beings. What would authoritarian humanism look like, governments rigorously and forcefully stressing the value of human beings?
:runs for the hills:
Probably it would look like the government taxing people at very, very high rates and using it to support social programs that the people didn't want to pay for, and ignoring the ways that people already deal with those issues in their communities. Actually, that is what is happening right now.
The state wants to force people to pay for things that many people don't want, money that explicitly goes to secular programs that cannot be easily used for religious programs.
This is very authoritarian.
It would also force people to accept political correctness as an enforced, public morality, as it is presently done in universities. Try working at a university and writing a book about why homosexuality is wrong. They will say it is hate speech. They have "non-discrimination laws" that make it "illegal" to discriminate against anyone, except the 80% of Americans who are Christian and others who are religious.
Not all atheists are liberal fascists, but some are.