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Question regarding humanism
- Thread starter dgirl1986
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Humanism can potentially be combined with various religions or beliefs, although some of them may result in a contradiction (such as, perhaps, Humanism's emphasis on the value of, and the self-realization potential for, humans, may contrast with the theological doctrine of total depravity, that humans are utterly unable to help themselves and require external salvation).
Humanism and secularism are often closely linked in practice, though. Secular Humanism in particular is generally devoid of divine solutions, practically by definition, but I'm sure that there are a variety of individual opinions of Secular Humanists concerning the scope of belief and knowledge, such as agnostics, atheists, pantheists, apatheists, and various other personal views.
Humanism and secularism are often closely linked in practice, though. Secular Humanism in particular is generally devoid of divine solutions, practically by definition, but I'm sure that there are a variety of individual opinions of Secular Humanists concerning the scope of belief and knowledge, such as agnostics, atheists, pantheists, apatheists, and various other personal views.
See the Humanist Manifesto I.
dyanaprajna2011
Dharmapala
Humanism, generally, is a secular idea. However, it has been combined with various religions. But like Penumbra pointed out, this can sometimes pose some problems. Certain religions, like Christianity, are god-centered, and this contrasts with the human centered-ness of humanism. However, it goes very well with other religions, like Buddhism, which tend to reject the idea of god, and are humanistic in their outlook anyway.
Zanuku
Member
Extractions from my own mine:
Say on 911 a giant hand fell from the clouds, grabbed the planes that smashed the Twin Towers and laid it safely on the ground, hovered over to Bin Laden and shook a finger at him, then I would be open to divine intervention, till then I can't see any point standing still and praying to god when tsunami is is heading your way or the nukes are dropping from the sky because if you act yourself instead of basing your continued existence on divine intervention I'd say your chances of survival get a boost..
In humanism, there is simply no room for the divine. If humanism were a picture, it would fill the frame.
Good question. Would you have a simple test to determine whether a person is open to that idea? It seems a bit on the subtle side to me personally.
Maybe your doubt is the reason why there are both Religious Humanism and Secular Humanism movements.
Interesting. Would you like to elaborate? Are there any perceived weird or contradictory points in the idea of Humanism?
I know Xians who are humanists, even though I don't think they'd describe themselves as such.
But then, they don't see the Bible as the literal word of God. Would they be Xian-lite?
Nearly half of those who signed the first Manifest were Unitarians.
dgirl1986
Big Queer Chesticles!
I do not have contradictory points, I am just simply trying to understand it as a whole.