It's this crazy belief that says people should be nice to each other. It works out good for you, cause you are a person.
Am I missing something? Do you really need the presence of a "magical" being to justify doing the right thing.
2007-09-13 01:32:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fundamentalists hate it because it doesn't force people to kowtow to their opinions about what spirituality should be.
Ironically -- or not -- the part of their own beliefs that they leave out is exactly the part that allows us to share in Jesus's divinity, the same way He shared our humanity: that what is earthly is good: that the human body is good; that human love for one another is an extension of God's love for everybody.
2007-09-13 01:39:22 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Secular humanism is a marvelous philosophy. Atheism is only not believing any gods exist. So no, it incredibly is not in straightforward terms a various edge of atheism. And it incredibly is not comprable, extra perfect or worse, than atheism. whilst it incredibly is relevent that i'm a humanist I point out it, whilst it incredibly is relevent i'm an atheist, I point out that.
2016-10-10 12:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by nicklow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed, be nice to others. Even the Bible says that TRUE religion is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless, visit those in hospitals and in prisons, and meet the needs of widows and orphans.
The problem with secular humanism is that it makes a god out of Mankind. It's a teaching that excludes God. God said first and foremost, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." The second great command is "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
Secular humanism goes straight to number 2 and totally ignores the #1 commandment.
God isn't some kind of "magical being". God transcends both space and time, and (according to the letter that Paul wrote to the church in Collosus (?) - ie the book of Collosians), that all things consist (held together) by His power. The power that holds the protons in place even though they are all positively charge. The power that keeps every atom, every molecule in place. "For we know that the things we see are comprised of things that are invisible" - written before anybody had even an inkling of an idea about atoms, etc. This same God said that in the last days, "the powers of heaven (Uranimos) shall be shaken" and "the very elements themselves will melt with a fervent heat." The God of the Bible is very real, and He created us.
So, in answer to your question - FINALLY (*WHEW*)! - yes - you ARE missing something - something very vital - you're missing God!
Additional comment:
to OldGuy - you are absolutely right, but you fall short slightly:
Not only will they be without God, but when God is fully eliminated, so will "all good things", for "all good things come from God". That would include friends, family, light, comfort, freedom from pain, love, peace, and hope to name a few good things that won't be there for them.
2007-09-13 01:45:22 · answer #3 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I reckon secular humanism is alright but I don't think theists would like it; especially their masters.
Their masters like their flock believing in Hell; Hell is like a convenient loaded gun they keep at the heads of the McGullibles - suck up to 'god' or spend eternity in Hell.
That's the way to keep the sheeple in line, eh?
2007-09-13 02:02:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I like secular humanism just fine.
But I think that a lot of people keep looking for something more to it. Like its either a con, or its not a developed enough idea to give any credence to.
Its maybe too simple. Too logical. They want mystery and ceremony.
2007-09-13 01:40:50 · answer #5 · answered by hypno_toad1 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Why should I be nice to you. Maybe my ideal of nice, is different than yours. If you are sick, my ideal of nice maybe to end your life, therefor ending your suffering. why would my way be wrong? Why can you justify eating chicken for diner tonight, that chicken has just as much right to life as you did. If chance is the only reason we are here, why should that chicken not have the right to eat you? Or for that matter I have the right to eat you. All I would be doing if filling a basic need for food. You ideal of right infringes on my ideal, how dare you. What gives you the right to have children, they take away my rights to have clean air, for they certainly will breath. I was here before they were, you should not invade my life that way. You are a bigot and self centered person, trying to force your religion upon the rest of us. You can be "nice" but keep it out of my life.
get my point?
2007-09-13 01:54:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Sadly, many people do.
An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist accepts that heaven is something for which we should work now -- here on earth -- for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist accepts that he can get no help through prayer, but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, to subdue it and to enjoy it. An Atheist accepts that only in a knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment
2007-09-13 01:39:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
SECULAR is not a RELIGIOUS , because , it's was a CIRCLE ( in generals ) quite like this EARTH ( not a God to us ). And there was nothing magics about this EARTH.
2007-09-13 02:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Bible says "There is a way that seems right unto men, but the end thereof, is the way of death." In my understanding that is secular humanism. How to live your life without God. And then you die without God, and then you spend eternity without God.
2007-09-13 01:42:25 · answer #9 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Nothing wrong with Secular Humanism. Yet religious people have this brain-washed idea that everyone needs to be saved and that god will punish those who deny him. Oh! and lets not forget that people have KILLED others in the name of god and yet religion is suppose to benefit society. I wonder.
2007-09-13 01:39:50 · answer #10 · answered by Imagine No Religion 6 · 7⤊ 4⤋