Ironically, they could adopt the biological equivalent of God’s love – the pressure to thrive – which shines on all living things, and the philosophical problem of human-centredness is elegantly overcome.  Also, thriving requires that the right conditions are put in place, and for humans, this means a functioning biosphere.

Why I am Not a Humanist

I understand it now – IE are saying that humanism is speciesist towards humans and against the rest of the living world.

A brief history of the Christian Church towards Science from the same book (out of copyright):

Some sixty years (Reg – about 140 years ago) in the “Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith,” the Church stated, “But never can reason be rendered capable of thoroughly understanding mysteries as it does those truths which form its proper subject.…[Read more]

Europe and other nations of the world were making scientific advances and non-theological based ideas about the nature of humankind until the Christian Church started its brutal campaigns of conversion which led to the stifling of further developments for about 1400 years. The Enlightenment then continued even although the Christian Churches still…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

@regthefronkeyfarmer – do you know, where did AI get that from? What do they mean?

Sounds familiar but could you link the page URL please.

It was a relief to learn that I am no big deal.

This is a very interesting article.  It seems that investing everything we do with our own ego, or instinct for self-preservation – can lead to that ego or self-preservation getting stomped all over, painfully.  If we are less egocentric, we are more happy, because we have less at stake or to l…[Read more]

What is Humanism?

Atheist Ireland said:

here are supposed naturalists and empiricists modelling their ethics on pseudoscientific claims

@regthefronkeyfarmer – do you know, where did AI get that from?  What do they mean?

Christians are claiming to have contributed to the modern conception of human rights, and I can see their point.  They’re not claiming to have invented it.

Europeans did not thrive.   etc.

But they wanted to.  They experienced a pressure to thrive, just like every other living thing.

Simon. Please pay attention this time. If human rights barely existed in the 5th century, the 9th century the 13th century and only started emerging with the SECULARIZATION of Europe…then how can Christianity take credit for it? That’s so fucking ridiculous, especially considering the lengths the church has gone to in order to stop it. It’s like…[Read more]