tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19222551.post3270719717524865350..comments2023-09-13T03:38:44.943-07:00Comments on NunEssential: "A Progressive Society Being Good Without gods" and Other Nonsense...Sr. Miriam Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02600898789601208065noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19222551.post-54989601546883174022012-06-15T19:47:24.495-07:002012-06-15T19:47:24.495-07:00umm, not all humanists are pro-abortion. generaliz...umm, not all humanists are pro-abortion. generalizing much?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19222551.post-63136003489091514832012-06-01T08:11:20.340-07:002012-06-01T08:11:20.340-07:00You know sister, its nice when people are nice. As...You know sister, its nice when people are nice. As a former humanist myself I used to applaud myself for my firmly held belief that humans were innately good and should be treated compassionately (I liked to distinguish myself from other secularists who are basically cynical about human nature or worse, those who see as lacking any nature...that people are basically elaborate machines). Today, I think faith as a kind of grace, at least it was so received in my case. So maybe some of these humanists are grace opportunites in waiting. And I am glad when some of them devote themselves sincerely to the charity of others. But unfortunately, if my own experience can be any guide, the humanists moral systems are superficial at best, and often quite contradictory. Look at Ms. Steinham who has been a symbol for so admirable a cause as women's rights, yet celebrates her role in the death of her child and the denigration of the special gift of fertility which has been the highest source feminine power since the beginning of time. And look at this young girl, who recieved the award. She won an award by rendering the faith and hopes of others as invisible. This was probably not her intention. She probably thought she was ensuring that all faiths and ideaologies are respected in the public sphere, that none could crowd the other out, but in doing so she had to eliminate all outward signs of faith. This reflects the morality of immature mind. She may want to, but can't embrace people whose beliefs she what it doesn't understand, so she decides to obliterate them. Its an unpleasant thing, but typical of the nastiness of a teenager, and should be taken with a grain of salt and understanding. But it is truly sad that there are adults in this Humanist organization, who find this type of youthful narcissism worthy of praise.<br /><br />The problem with the morality of humanists is that when they try to set out to do what's right they end up inverting it and turning an evil into a virtue. That's because they put man's thought's and ideas before God's will. They have no faith in a power greater than themselves, therefore they lack the humilty necessary to discern right action. They are confused by this topsy turvey world of their own invention, treating humilty as a weakness, and self involement as an ideal condition. Thus sincerely held religious beliefs get attacked in the public square and the murder of the unborn are celebrated as symbols of liberty and humanism.Billy Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07158458283378419844noreply@blogger.com