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  1. I have some problems with the new humanism.

    It doesn’t fight the new religion and its priesthood (money and economists) but continues the old French Enlightenment anti-clerical agenda. (Not that this is such a bad thing I suppose.)

    It seems to be unaware of or ignore the problems in its own position (empiricism can’t give meaning to causation – a Mr Hume pointed this out long ago, it is not news).

    I don’t see how it can make a case for the superiority of reason. We have also evolved our senses and intuition. So why prefer reason?

    If they wish to oppose oppression and closed mindedness, this is excellent; many of us religious people agree – for religious reasons.

    And just by the way religious people are not preoccupied with belief. We too reason on the basis of experience – to attack belief just misses the point. If the new humanists want to attack religion they need to deal with religious people’s experience.

    1. Thanks for sharing these good thoughts, Evan. And you can see this debate going on among the various advocates of the new humanism. And yes, some of these folks are as close-minded and as rigid as the overly dogmatic religious folks they criticize. And some are so narrow-minded that they can’t see the beauty of other metaphors. But not all the advocates are such.

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