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Humanism Wrongly Associated with Atheism
The Humanist movement is about to become a dominant credo for our species, as the age of orthodox and fundamentalist religion fades in the face of the Internet’s expansion of education to everyone.
Yet Humanism is a captive and misrepresented philosophy, hijacked for its name by aggressive atheists. Their inverted religious obsession has obscured Humanism from wider acceptance.
This situation must end, as we build trust and respect for Humanists as critics and champions of our own species.
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Humanism News
The Dutch and Italians, et al have been hiding their nukes for decades.
Atheism and Humanism are rebounding, while orders such as the Jesuits see their numbers dwindle toward extinction. Some see an opportunity for Humanism’s gentle metaphysics to benefit from Jesuit-style advocacy.
Farewell to the Holocene: Our old world of the last 12,000 years has ended.
Norman Borlaug has been described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time — for nearly 50 years.
A philosopher and the UN deliver the NWO, and the Pentagon and Obama are in turmoil. When a Jesuit leader defects to Humanism, the game escalates..
Atheism, Brights and Humanists can unite to be recognized as advocates for our species per se. To do this they must avoid religious acrimony.
Features
In the arc of history, all great powers have their day. Even confining our glance to the modern era, countries such as Spain, France, and Great Britain all had periods of unrivalled power across the world stage. Today, the United States reigns as the world’s sole superpower – but the wheel of fortune is turning.
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Concerned that his positive vision of humanism is being threatened and perhaps eclipsed with a new brand of acerbic atheism, Paul Kurtz has drafted and released just this week a new “Neo-Humanist Statement of Secular Values and Principles.”
We’ll accept the Universe as our neighbor, as cool wallpaper, and not get too exercised about its existence – this remoteness buffers us from intruders.
Transhumanism—the belief that technology can transcend the limitations of the human body and brain—and techno-utopianism—the idea that humans can create a progressively better future through the rational mastery of nature—are part of the family of Enlightenment philosophies.
Like FSBO to a real estate agent, Wi-Fi is the dirtiest word in the communications lexicon. It signals the eventual demise of dedicated cable and cell phone services, which the public just won’t have to pay for anymore.
Stepping on the scam artists, while supporting good publications and writers, is a most fitting finale to a page well taken. No doubt they’ll figure it out someday– in the meantime enjoy the issue – and leave a little in the tip jar..
Progressive and mainstream humanists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews and others of good will need to concentrate on what unites us, not on what divides us. Divisive ad campaigns invite blowback and stimulate both ends of the religious spectrum to engage in fruitless bouts of name-calling and invective.
