Sentences with phrase «humanists do»

Humanists do not believe that the universe or earth was created by God.

Humanists do not look to any god for rules but think carefully for themselves about what might be the best way to live.

What secular humanists don't understand is even their world view of equal human rights are built on New Testament principles.

Secular humanists don't need a theological belief system to live a meaningful life.

Christians do so to save souls, secular humanists do so to better society.

Not exact matches

If you do ANYTHING for your own gratification it means you're a humanist... which is all Satanism really is.

I don't care what all the secular humanists and their ilk think, there IS an agenda to discredit Christianity in America and the rest of the Western world.

The jungled gymnasiums most humanists take in high flying rationalisms do openly abort their oneness with God!

Also if I do not follow the canon believed by most Christians (give or take some duterocannonical books) I might as well be Baha'i, Muslim, or Secular Humanist.

BTW: In case I am not being clear, I do not «blame» secularists or Humanists for this situation.

I prefer to be humanist and do good but in the name of our humanity and not in the name of any religion.

Nowhere did I state I was a humanist, so your point on that is moot.

You attempted to claim that Humanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having doneHumanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having donehumanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having done to them.

So, while I will say again that I am not an authority on either, I do know enough to be able to tell when a person belongs in the Christian camp or the Humanist camp, I believe.

If you are not a Humanist, then may I ask what you do believe?

You said, «From a humanist perspective God does not seem to make sense.»

Perhaps the late medieval church, but their sins were greatly exaggerated by the Humanists of the Enlightenment (as well as the Protestants) and so we have to take the reports with a grain of salt and also make sure that we don't condense several hundred years of bad history into a single solitary condemnation.

To continue to draw up — as many of our denominational leaders do — battle lines with humanists on one side and theists on the other is specious and still reflects the popular, but otiose, approach to the whole debate.

Once you've adopted the humanist we - can - do - it - alone conception, you may start believing that the church did indeed come together as a therapeutic social contract.

For such Communists, who have sometimes proved willing to sacrifice all to this most intensive and comprehensive valuation, Communism does function religiously and is therefore for them a living religion.33 Ignace Lepp, a Catholic convert from Communism, corroborates Ferré» s view when he writes that Marxist humanists «are convinced that they possess absolute truth, and the best of them are ready to give their life for the defense and triumph of this truth.

However, we do know that Bart Campolo is now serving as a Humanist chaplain and speaking at Secular Student Alliance conferences designed to gather a «community of atheists, agnostics, and nonbelievers.»

It automatically becomes a serious offense to injure or exploit other people, not because of some vague humanist values but because God has done man the unspeakable honor of identifying himself with the human race.

And I really got ta say «progressive» Christians (two words that should never go together, the Gospel is timeless and therefore can not be progressive) have much more in common with atheists and secular humanists than they do with other actual Christians.

But it is easier than watching people slink away ashamed of their ignorance because they don't know what a «secular humanist» is and what they «stand for».

@Rational Humanist / / «If they can't understand that their religion does not trump the rights of their workers and does not trump any government law...» =========================

So it looks like Christians really do have more reason to call themselves «humanists» than atheists do.

«I think that any atheist or humanist that is participating in that story needs to find better things to do with their time.»

«Humanist Manifesto 2000» does not have a list of signatories anywhere near the status of those who signed the first manifesto in 1933, but Paul Kurtz and his International Academy of Humanism did manage to recruit nine Nobel laureates and comedian Steve Allen.

As a Secular Humanist, a politician's beliefs don't matter to me.

We rely on laws of the land for morality just as much as you do, but most atheists ascribe to humanist ideals.

Atheists, Muslims, Christians, Humanists — and indeed every human group can all too easily do that.

Don't characterize me as a «hater» because I dare to object to the bigoted nonsense the godless humanists have posted on this blog.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

Did you mean «humanist» instead of «humanitarian»?

It has nothing to do with one's morality... an Atheist can be a a Humanist (as I am), or to your point, might have no morals whatsoever.

With the exception of some secular humanist groups, atheists don't have or attend anything remotely resembling churches.

And so do the atheists, non-religious, secular humanists that we share it with.

Good luck being a Secular Humanist, Most Humanists wouldn't discredit someone's belief system so arrogantly as you just did to mine.

You don't make any sense humanist.

If you're Christian and call him Jesus or Jewish and call him Jehovah (and I'm aware that they aren't allowed to speak his name but that's what they know him as) or Muslim and call him Allah or Pagan and believe in many gods or atheist and follow Humanist principles what should matter is what you do with your life and how well you treat others.

You atheists know who you are, so don't argue about it, go talk with the Humanist Atheists, you don't have to give up atheism, but you can not keep writing off the world's religions because they are quite frankly the most important deciding factors in whether this world will survive much longer, whether there will be chaos in the world or order.

This means that humanists should incorporate all kinds of species into their «moral sphere», says Law, and in fact most humanists are more than prepared to do that.

As a Christian believes true meaning is found in Christ, so a humanist believes that humans makes their own meaning, and don't need to look for answers beyond themselves.

Here in the UK we do nt call our selfes Atheists but humanist, humanist belive their is no GOD but beleive we should help and be kind to other human beings

In view of all this the charge must be made against the radical group of religious leaders, whom we call Humanists, that they have failed to do justice to the fundamental feature in the phenomenon of religion.

There are many atheistic / humanist / secular groups who do good and civil service.

The religious humanism I endorse does not attack Christian theism with the critical apparatus of rationalism, science or positivism; nor does it seek to make these the foundation for the humanist perspective.

The humanist's opinion doesn't signify.

The only difference is, at least non-believers (agnostics, secularists, humanists, atheists etc) take personal responsibility for the good AND bad that they do, creating an opportunity to at least learn from the experience.

The humanist apparently does not experience the goodness of God / ultimate reality in the self - authenticating way that Edward Schillebeeckx, for example, describes in «Non-religious Theism and Belief in God.»