Sentences with phrase «secular humanism as»

As the title of a book it is a little cumbersome, a little intimidating, except that it's absolutely essential to the discussion of Secular Humanism as America's Established religion and how we can disestablish it.

But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.

Convinced that they must remain loyal to the fundamentals of the past, they condemn secular humanism as the work of the devil.

Therefore dialogue between Religion and Secular Humanism as well as between Religions began to take place within the national context on the meaning, values and goals of modern Indian nationhood.

That all should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood (sic) is another moral norm that is acceptable to persons and peoples is a demand of secular humanism as well as of all the major world religions.

(There are some people who really do practice secular humanism as a religion which does complicate definitions.)

No, what poisons everything is atheism / secular humanism as evidenced by the fact that 93 % of all of humanity's wars were started for non-religious purposes.

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Secular humanism by your definition would be classified as a religion, but that isn't what you originally set out to show.

The aim of Walker Percy's work as a whole is to re-establish the validity of a Christian humanism that has been displaced by a vapid secular substitute.

Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant «state religion» of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons and other early churchmen who found America to be so accommodating to religion as to warrant a reciprocal accommodation to nationalism.

An atheist of the secular humanism vein and an atheist of the Objectivist vein are about as similar as a bicycle and an octopus.

I answered, as best I could, in the spirit of post-Vatican II Catholicism, which assumes and relies upon secular humanism to be its dialogue partner.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Secular humanism «is» a philosophical viewpoint that encompasses such things as morality and your statement would be on only slightly less shaky ground if you had said that about humanism.

Fundamentalism rejects the human freedoms which have opened up in the aftermath of the western Enlightenment, and is committed to combat secular humanism and all other aspects of the modern world which it regards as injurious to the spiritual condition of humankind.

LaHaye has written more than 60 non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects such as: family life, temperaments, sexual adjustment, Bible prophecy, the will of God, Jesus Christ, and secular humanism with over 14 million in print, some of which have been translated into 32 foreign languages.

They attribute social ills such as «widespread family breakdown, immorality and social integration» to the fact that «the nation has largely turned her back on Jesus and embraced alternative ideas such as secular humanism, moral relativism and sexual licence».

Secular humanism is about promoting humanity as a group.

With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.

Secular Humanism does not claim an ultimate authority as its foundation.

Like Christianity, secular humanism has many noble aspirations for human society, such as peace, justice and equality.

Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.

The Supreme Court gave a boost to their conviction that secularism is a genuine competing faith in the ruling in the 1961 Torcaso case, in which «Secular Humanism» was identified as a religion, and in Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in the 1963 Schempp case, which referred to a refusal to permit religious exercises in schools as not «the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.»

As I engaged in on line forums dealing in philosophy, science, secular humanism and a host of other ideas, I felt alive again.

But, then, the dirty little secret is exposed: non-religion (or secular humanism, as Torcaso v. Watkins admitted) is just as much a religion as any other, except that by pretending to not be a religion, it becomes the Constitutionally established faith and religious test, not just for public office but anything public (public policy, the public square), whose content is defined by the clerisy of a five justice «theocratic majoritarianism.»

And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.

The Failure of Secular Humanism Secularism seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development.

Above all, Christian fundamentalism fails to understand how and why the new secular humanism has evolved out of Christendom in much the same way as Christianity evolved out of Judaism.

The political freedom of liberalism is negative political freedom, just as the academic freedom of secular humanism is negative academic freedom.

I will use «secular humanism» as a label for the post-Enlightenment, nontheistic faith of the large and growing number of Westerners who have abandoned Judaism or Christianity without adopting another species of organized religion.

Although «secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and othershumanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.Secular Humanism, and othersHumanism, and others.»

Secular Humanism has been in the increase for the last 50 years as God has been removed.

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

If the great religions continue to waste their energies in a fratricidal war instead of looking upon themselves as friendly partners in the supreme task of nourishing the spiritual life of mankind, the swift advance of secular humanism and moral materialism is assured.32

The dynamics of modern «secular culture» have their roots in a concept of humanism derived from the Christian gospel but that because of the failure of the churches to respond positively to the values that emerged in Christian culture as implication of Christian humanism, they were sought to be realized in human history under the dynamic of «secularist ideologies of humanism» in opposition to the Christian faith.

(At a meeting in Mavelikara on the 13th Feb 96, where EMS, gave the Bishop M. M. John Lecture on The Significance of Dialogue between Religion, and Secular ideologies for building a New Humanism, as chairman I raised the question whether a future Socialism would not require the following changes in the Marxist ideology so as not to fall into Stalinism.

Most Conservative American * Christians * cling to the Law, not the Cross, Pentecostal / Charismatics use traditional church - speak to cloak a spiritual gnosticism in much the same way as Liberal * Christians * hid their secular humanism behind traditional theological terminology that has been redefined by context.

Having sampled public opinion as well as having made a more precise legal interpretation, the lawyer concluded that the charge would not hold up in court; Religion evokes worship; secular humanism does not.

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Some of these theologians, and others as well, believe that Christian theology is most relevantly compared with doctrines about the meaning of life that are usually called secular, such as communism, fascism, romantic naturalism, and rationalistic humanism.

In a structure of thought dominated, as secular humanism's is, by the strict opposition of «human intelligence» to «divine guidance» and by the insistence that any reference to a transcendent reality is meaningless, obviously most traditional religious terms are going to be missing from respectable discourse (or mentioned only to be demeaned)....

A collection of resources and scheme of work o introducing Humanism as an secular perspective to Year 9.