The obvious error here is in assuming that secular = reason. It doesn't. In fact, hard-core secularists are typically some of the most unreasonable, irrational people you will meet.
Time to kick some sand in their face...
Are these people connected to George’s Human Fund?
And you're *absolutely* certain of this,"Reverend"?
The couple in the picture have to be from central casting.
A humanist “American Gothic.”
The couple in the picture have to be from central casting.
A humanist “American Gothic.”
His wife, Linda Antoun Miller, said being a humanist to her means “that we alone have responsibility for our world and that we should try to increase the good, the true and the beautiful. We make our own heaven and hell on earth. Being good because you will be rewarded in the hereafter is less than doing good for purely generous reasons.”
Well, that approach brought us the bloodbath that was the 20th century. These people never have to answer for that, as, say, Christians are called onto the carpet for the Inquisition or the Crusades. Nobody ever makes them define terms like “good” or “generous” or “true” or “beautiful” when they throw them around, or even challenges them as to why these things are desirable in and of themselves. This woman is a psuedo-intellectual twit, spewing platitudes that are not anchored in anything other than what sounds good to her right now. Twit. Her husband also qualifies as one. Neither of them accurately states the theistic position from which they dissent. Twits.
Humanism is the aging hippie’s refuge on the way to Hell.
It was a fad among the “intelligentsia” before World War II showed the depravity that humans are capable of.
Two thoughts:
First, how does he "know" that death is final? He might believe it; he might have faith that it is so. But it is irrational to state that he knows it.
Second, if death is final, then ultimately nothing else matters. In the long run, we are all dead, as Keynes so famously said. And as soon as anyone dies—Rev. Miller included—the universe ceases to exist for that person.
If all is nothing more than atoms and void, it is ultimately pointless to talk about truth, rationality, or morality. The Universe cares nothing about those things, or about us. Do good, do evil, or do nothing—in the end, each is equally pointless.
As a secular humanist myself, my big problem with the (H)umanists is that they use their worldview as a cover for the promotion of socialism.
They want a voice in the political process.....all they have to do is talk.
Hmmmm. Sort of a mix of the lisping Toulouse Lautrec character from the movie Moulin Rouge ("do you believe in truth, beauty and love?"), John Lennon ("imagine there's no heaven"), and Kant. Lord, save our nation from the Church Ladies gone bad.
Humanism...just another name for bestiality and animalism.
I suppose humanists are better than the misanthropic transhumanists, but not by much.