One of my talents is helping people think about stuff.
I don’t discriminate.
Male, female, young, old, Christian, Humanist – I’ll help anyone!
Today, I’m going to help you, Humanists.
Humanism is a parachute for when you leap from the Christian airplane.
You shout, “I don’t need God to be good,” while free-falling through philosophical limbo.
When you pull the rip-cord, you’ll discover that your chute is made entirely of New Testament Christianity.
You say:
Humanism “stresses an individual’s dignity and worth.” When you do this you naturally value others for who they are … another human being.
And Christianity replies:
Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor … Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.
You say:
Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence over acceptance of dogma or superstition.
And Christianity replies:
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
See?
You don’t gain “value for humans” with Humanism.
Christianity has all that stuff already!
PLUS – (You Need To Read This Carefully)
Christianity offers a philosophically sound reason for “emphasizing the value and agency of human beings”.
This is crucial!
As a humanist, you say:
Yikes.
A few questions to help you see the futility of this humanist screed.
Would you say that you are greater than Jesus and thus able to outline His “faults and failures”?
Why shouldn’t people believe truth based on fear? I’m afraid I’ll die if I drink gasoline. Why are you morally opposed to fear?
You say, “people should be free to believe what they want”, does that include belief in God? Does that include fear of punishment for sin?
How do you define “evil and immoral”? Is it simply your opinion?
I’ll answer that last one for you…
“Yes. It is your personal opinion.”
This is why you should ditch Humanism for Christianity.
Christianity is chock full of love, compassion, respect, kindness, generosity, and goodwill toward mankind.
AND Christianity has something not found in Humanism:
A rational explanation for evil and immorality!
That’s right!
Instead of offering your anemic “feelings” on slavery, rape, murder, and religious indoctrination…
…you can say “wrong” and know that it means something!
Christianity makes your morality real.
Humanism does not.
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For both the readers (who are wondering) this is a picture of Ark! At least, it’s how I picture the socially-awkward, pre-pubescent boy who emerges when Ark is misbehaving.
All he needs to do is admit there is order and meaning in the Universe, and everyone else will be able to read his comments, too. But, if he’s too stubborn, you’ll just have to enjoy the recaps.
–Gunslinger, signing off
Ark, the fact that you’re still trying desperately to publish a meaningless and disordered comment here is WAY more ridiculous than me talking to myself…
All our regular readers know the terms, and you do, too. Admit that there’s meaning and order in the Universe (as evidenced by things like language and blog comments), or all of your random, nonsense words will go to spam. 🙂
<3
Happy to send you to spam as often as you require.
(And, just for the record, I actually TRASHED that last one… That’s where meaningless and disordered comments really belong.) 🙂
Poor guy really can’t learn. Sad, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, I think I just re-learned how to get his comments to go STRAIGHT to spam, without having to do it manually. (I couldn’t figure it out on my phone.)
I’m sure we’ll see, when the little guy tries to make his (meaningless and disordered) voice heard again.
Did you catch that, Gunslinger? He likes having his comments trashed! You’re doing a ministry!
I think it’s kind of sweet the way he’s drawn to test limits. He’s not the first child I’ve met who has lacked consistent consequences in his life! He actually feels drawn to the safety and predictability of discipline from Mrs. McMommy. 😀 <3
#awwww
“…trying to behave decently…” says a lot. First, it should be easy, because everyone gets to provide their own definition of ‘decently’. How do you miss the mark when you define the target? You must be pretty pathetic at a game if you can’t win one that you can, nay must, rig (because without your say-so, no boundaries exist). Secondly, if you have to ‘try’, it would imply that it does not come naturally. If behaving decently was as natural as breathing, you wouldn’t need to encourage people to do it (that is why the cartoon where the bird has to slap the cat and yell, “Breathe, Stupid” is funny). You might have suggestions for how to do it better in certain circumstances (like breathing techniques for swimming or childbirth), but you certainly would not need to encourage the behavior be done. Bringing us again to the question, if people are so good, why is so much evil caused by the hand of Man?
My eyes have been opened. Telling other people that they must believe something or a terrible fate awaits them is EVIL! When my doctor tells me that I should not smoke because it will give me cancer, He is TRYING to use fear to force me to accept HIS beliefs!
I will have him arrested for hate speech.
Thank the random probabilities for secular humanism!