Christianity/Humanist?

[DallasApple]

Hey,

Im a Christian...but I was just reading the belief system of Humanist....Can you be both????

Blessings

Dallas

 

[Smoke]

Of course you can! Your church might not like it, though -- depending on the church.

 

[DallasApple]

Of course you can! Your church might not like it, though -- depending on the church.

Thanks for answering me MidnightBlue....

And as far as my church liking it???...My church is the body of Christians as a whole. not a building or an organization..although I attend a brick and morter building to worship and learn ...But as far as Im concerned the people are the "church" and I believe thats how Jesus teaches us....So therefore if some Christians are humanist as well than they are part of my church....Maybe they will like me....

I need to understand it better..But at first glance its sounds as if my heart is there ..On top of that I dont get how everyone wouldnt strive to be a humanist..

Thanks again..

Blessings

Dallas

 

[TurkeyOnRye]

We should all be humanists. As you can see from my title, I consider myself one. Learning to love each other is one of the most important parts of being human.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

You sure can be both! For the love of God, please do it.

 

[whereismynotecard]

What is humanist?? Does that mean that you like humans??

 

[Guitar's Cry]

I think Christianity was meant to be humanistic, but humans sometimes ruin it.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

What is humanist?? Does that mean that you like humans??

Ah, youth.

Humanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Evelyn]

First and formost, you must be human.

Second, you must care about humans.

You can pretty much find aspects of humanism in every religion or non-religion alike.

It's simply a matter of where you place value and meaning in the human person.

 

[Evelyn]

Oops....I just realized that I'm not supposed to post in here. My apologies...

 

[roli]

Hey,

Im a Christian...but I was just reading the belief system of Humanist....Can you be both????

Blessings

Dallas

I encourage you to read the humanist manifesto 1& 2 with a prayerful heart and find out yourself how they encourage a self indulgent, carnal behavior and man is epitomized as being almost godlike.

That depends on how far you go with humanism,I suppose ther are some nice cliche's like many philosophies in our world, but much of the humanist manifesto is centered around self, me, man, I.
ie: Quotes from "Humanist Manifesto 2"
1) "Promoting reason and intellect as the most effective instruments of humankind.
2)Despite what the bible says concerning sexuality,They say intolernce towards sexuality only represses sexual conduct.

 

[Father Heathen]

I encourage you to read the humanist manifesto 1& 2 with a prayerful heart and find out yourself how they encourage a self indulgent, carnal behavior and man is epitomized as being almost godlike.

That depends on how far you go with humanism,I suppose ther are some nice cliche's like many philosophies in our world, but much of the humanist manifesto is centered around self, me, man, I.
ie: Quotes from "Humanist Manifesto 2"
1) "Promoting reason and intellect as the most effective instruments of humankind.
2)Despite what the bible says concerning sexuality,They say intolernce towards sexuality only represses sexual conduct.

Perhaps you might want to go a little further and actually explain why you think any of that is bad?

 

[Jordan St. Francis]

I happen to think Christianity is the authentic humanism- that is, Christianity properly pursued. So I would give a heart felt yes.

 

[roli]

Perhaps you might want to go a little further and actually explain why you think any of that is bad?

Man exalts himself as a self righteous god as if he were in control of his destiny, but does this far beyond the level of his abilities.
How self defeating is this..if one be truly honest with himself.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I encourage you to read the humanist manifesto 1& 2 with a prayerful heart and find out yourself how they encourage a self indulgent, carnal behavior ...

Those @#%#&@$!

 

[lamplighter]

Oops....I just realized that I'm not supposed to post in here. My apologies...

This isn't restricted access or anything you just can't debate against secularism in here, despite other's attempts to do so...... but feel free post.