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| RELIGIOUS HUMANISM |
| Monday, January 03, 2005 |
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The Snipet has decided to take on the Humanist Manifesto I-III.
FIRST: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not created.
Cause and effect is the foundation of scientific study. This is where the "religious" humanism part comes in. It takes faith to believe the first tenet of religious humanism because it is unscientific.
SECOND: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.
Its funny, the use of "process" in this tenet is contradictory of the first.
THIRD: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
By traditional dualism, they are saying that cognition is simple reaction to stimuli, therefore we are nothing more than animals with higher reasoning power.
FOURTH: Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civilization, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture.
This is true in some instances, but is unscientific in its approach. To completely attribute the whole topic of religion and the supernatural to cultural belief and reaction to external stimuli limits the scope of scientific inquiry. This is additional faith based belief.
FIFTH: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. Obviously humanism does not deny the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered, but it does insist that the way to determine the existence and value of any and all realities is by means of intelligent inquiry and by the assessment of their relations to human needs. Religion must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific spirit and method.
If this remained constant then there would be no order to the universe. Everything from eliptical orbits to dna organization recognize a prediliction toward a "value system". The universe is built and guided on laws and laws are often what values are established upon.
SIXTH: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought".
Again, without sufficient scientific investigation.
SEVENTH: Religion consists of those actions, purposes, and experiences which are humanly significant. Nothing human is alien to the religious. It includes labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation -- all that is in its degree expressive of intelligently satisfying human living. The distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.
To say that religion is nothing but self gratification is saying that its religious humanism in a different form. But relistically, how can one scientifically explain, for example, self-sacrifice?
EIGHTH: Religious Humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man's life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now. This is the explanation of the humanist's social passion.
So inherently selfish reward today is the driving passion of the humanist.
NINTH: In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.
For what purpose does one promote social well-being? What emotion is it based on? Does one promote social well-being simply for its reciprocity? Keep in mind, that if this is so, and a humanist ever does something for you, its for him, not you. Get it?
TENTH: It follows that there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.
Again, it limits science while invoking it.
ELEVENTH: Man will learn to face the crises of life in terms of his knowledge of their naturalness and probability. Reasonable and manly attitudes will be fostered by education and supported by custom. We assume that humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking.
Two parents placed their three year old child in an oven and turned it on. The child died a horrible death. How "natural and probable" is this event, as humanism claims thier action as not being evil, but the simple result of cultural stimuli and natural cause.
TWELFTH: Believing that religion must work increasingly for joy in living, religious humanists aim to foster the creative in man and to encourage achievements that add to the satisfactions of life.
Some of the greatest advances in science have come from the religious mind. The above statement assumes that the religious are unproductive, and sit by in life letting it go by. Statistically proven are several things: 1. Religious people are more charitable--giving more to others, their communities, those less fortunate, than secularists. 2. Industry and technology have been the result of largely religious inititiative and work ethic. It is evident that the humanist is focused on their own pleasure rather the enrichment of those around them.
THIRTEENTH: Religious humanism maintains that all associations and institutions exist for the fulfillment of human life. The intelligent evaluation, transformation, control, and direction of such associations and institutions with a view to the enhancement of human life is the purpose and program of humanism. Certainly religious institutions, their ritualistic forms, ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities must be reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows, in order to function effectively in the modern world.
Who gives any one or any structure the right to TRANSFORM or CONTROL institutions or associations. Also, what gives humans the right to manipulate and elevate themselves above any lifeform. The thirteenth tenet strongly suggests, "We are the Borg, you must be assimulated". Hitler was a wonderful example of a religious humanist.
FOURTEENTH: The humanists are firmly convinced that existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society has shown itself to be inadequate and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted. A socialized and cooperative economic order must be established to the end that the equitable distribution of the means of life be possible. The goal of humanism is a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate for the common good. Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world.
The only way some in society will work is if they are enslaved and forced to. The only way to curb graft and excessive self gratification is for people to realize their are things more important them themselves--something humanism preaches against. In order to establish "controls" one has to be in charge, this is nothing but the "acquisitive and profit-motivated" society but without the industry. Sharing is a higher function of existence--it can't be demanded as it is a function of cognition based on the giver, not the givee.
FIFTEENTH AND LAST: We assert that humanism will: (a) affirm life rather than deny it; (b) seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from them; and (c) endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few. By this positive morale and intention humanism will be guided, and from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of humanism will flow.
(a) therefore we support abortion and euthanisia, (b) by limiting people's choices for the greater good and (c) by simply taking from those who produce to give to those who won't, or by enslaving those who won't to produce what is wanted by all.
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posted by Jack Mercer @ 1/03/2005 03:25:00 PM   |
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I like your comments. Logical!
Communism fails for similar reasons. It is the mob mentality that says the group is all and the individual is nothing. Dr. Zhivago is a nice illustration of the ridiculousness of beliefs like this.
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Thanks for your comments, Darth! I am beginning to tire of the radical fundamentalism found in the secularist/humanist movement. It is often unlogical and unscientific in its approach, while pretending to be both.
Thanks for stopping by the News Snipet 'Blog!
-j
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Very nice breakdown Jack. Reading that there humanist doctrine gave me the f-ing willies!
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Thanks for stopping by, Latigo-quick draw! It does me too, but the HM II & III try to soften it a bit. Secular humanism is just as bad, with similar aims. Will be posting more in the future.
Jack
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I like your comments. Logical!
Communism fails for similar reasons. It is the mob mentality that says the group is all and the individual is nothing. Dr. Zhivago is a nice illustration of the ridiculousness of beliefs like this.