[No.6]

"A "Humanist" is someone who promotes human interests, or at least thinks he does. "

You are thinking of "humanitarian." "Humanist" describes those people who believe that human reason is the pinnacle of life; thus a humanist believes there is no God.

Webster has humanitarianism as a synonym for humanism (gah) but also "a philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason."

Humanitarianism and humanism have nothing in common except where liberals want to blur definitions, so there's no point helping them.

[ArGee]

You are thinking of "humanitarian." "Humanist" describes those people who believe that human reason is the pinnacle of life; thus a humanist believes there is no God.

I may be confused, but isn't one of the precepts of a godless world that there is no pinnacle of life? i.e. life has no goal, no purpose, no ultimate design. Therefore, there can not be a best or worst, highest or lowest. Therefore, there can be no pinnacle. Without G-d, human reason has no more claim to be the pinnacle of life than the reason of a gnat.

Shalom.

[MattAMiller]

Webster has humanitarianism as a synonym for humanism (gah) but also "a philosophy that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self-realization through reason."

What's wrong with this? It certainly has little to do with the modern left which largely rejects reason as being "Eurocentric." And they are most definitely not interested in individual dignity as that tends to put a damper on race pimping.