I Wish You a Thoughtful Humanist Day

[tenebrax]

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"The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy is all humanity. As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. In our tenure of this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage - propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders - all of which

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[thewordofzod]

"Who is more humble..." ~ Carl Sagan

I like that... thats the way scientist-me has always looked at it.

My frustration with that particular war is that much as, by definition, the science minded should not behave that way, ever... they sadly do, theorhetical science is often a political religion.

[bacchuseternus]

Sagan was a great mind, but his humanism shows the influence a Christian society can have still have on someone who makes a continuous effort to take a scientific view of the world. It feels good, it seduces, it makes one popular with the masses. Humanism is hard habit to break.

Humanism, especially its egalitarian aspects, is a gateway drug to Christianity.