Awesome, and true no matter where one lands on abortion a an issue:
"I know full well how easy it is for the powerful to disdain and destroy the powerless. Secular humanists should be ALL ABOUT trying to stop that abuse."
If anything, the stance of the vulgar and thoughtless humanists (in name at least) of today only fuels the argument that (some) humans need a divine consciousness surveiling and judging their actions in order to act or indeed ieven have morals at all.
Personally, I quit the humanist society of Sweden decades ago precicely because they had developed into an order of set ideas, ideals and morals on all issues - a dogmatic cult:
Atheism, check. Pro-abortion as a right, check. Anti-capital punishment and prisons, check. Anti private gun ownership, check. Pro high taxes corporate society, check. And so on.
Where did the "human" part of "humanist" go? All that's left is the "-ist".
(Felt pressing "heart" wasn't enough for such a good point you make!)
Awesome, and true no matter where one lands on abortion a an issue:
"I know full well how easy it is for the powerful to disdain and destroy the powerless. Secular humanists should be ALL ABOUT trying to stop that abuse."
If anything, the stance of the vulgar and thoughtless humanists (in name at least) of today only fuels the argument that (some) humans need a divine consciousness surveiling and judging their actions in order to act or indeed ieven have morals at all.
Personally, I quit the humanist society of Sweden decades ago precicely because they had developed into an order of set ideas, ideals and morals on all issues - a dogmatic cult:
Atheism, check. Pro-abortion as a right, check. Anti-capital punishment and prisons, check. Anti private gun ownership, check. Pro high taxes corporate society, check. And so on.
Where did the "human" part of "humanist" go? All that's left is the "-ist".
(Felt pressing "heart" wasn't enough for such a good point you make!)