I don't really know about the American branch of the movement, but I don't like the Swedish branch. Many of them listens a lot to pseudo-teleological Neo-Darwinists such as Richard Dawkins (whose opinions about religion are ridiculous - trying to argue about religious matters at the level he does will never work). The humanist movement has also been, as far as I know, since it was initiated by, among others, Julian Huxley (brother of Aldous), supporting eugenics - that is, government controlled birth control with the aim to improve the genome - one might wonder what should be termed an improvement and what should not - and just how the government is supposed to know this (and be sure - it would be SQ, not DQ). Many of them, at least around here, are also fundamentalist atheists, even though they claim to accept religious belief and only being "skeptic" - many of them criticize religion in a very "rough" way - which really isn't pragmatic. They often use the Russell-Dawkins argument which goes: "There is no logical reason to believe in the existence of a God" to which any believed easily could reply "Yes, but God is above/beyond the realms of logic". This sort of argumentation is at the same level as adherents of different religions use against each other. Such as Muslims saying of Christians: "It is ridiculous to believe that God would have a child" or Christians saying about Jews that "It is ridiculous that the Jews rejected their own messiah" and Jews about Christians that "Their Messiah is an heretic according to the teachings of Torah" or a Christian saying of an Hindu that "the Hindu's polytheism is a primitive concept of God and not an ultimate theology". Other humanists I've met, have been preaching the gospel of reason, saying that reason should be able to solve anything, which is positivism and formalism. I wouldn't support them if they are in America, as over here.
/A -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För 118 Skickat: den 12 november 2010 02:36 Till: [email protected] Ämne: [MD] Humanism Hi all, Perhaps I am getting bored of this atheism stuff. So I am now switching to humanism. I was perusing through the american humanist site and saw that they are now providing serious propaganda against religion. So I looked a bit more into it, and found that the humanism movement in Italy during the Renaissance was heavily involved in Church matters at least from a scholarly point of view. However, they also confused the issues of religions through scholarly work, which didn't make the church leaders happy. Keep it simple and you keep control. I haven't read the wiki version of it, but there are other good descriptive sites. So I went back to the archive with a word search of humanism and saw that JC, Krimel and Dave have already brought this up. What I wonder in the setting of the MOQ is whether all humanists are atheist or the other way around. Is MOQ considered to be Humanist? This has probably been brought up before (perhaps even in Lila), and for that I apologize. I only have so much time (too much time actually right now), and my brain is small and shoves out the old with the new. If I had an electronic version of Lila I wouldn't bother you with the question. Cheers, Mark Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
