Staring into the eyes of a humanistic worldview
In an article from Straits Times dated 23 Jul 2011, there was a feature article on the Singapore Humanist Society. The headline was 'I've no God - and am proud of it'. This is quite an interesting article. It reported that these humanists are united in their belief that morality comes from humanity itself and in their rejection of a theistic explanation of reality and their embracing of scientific inquiry. And I felt 'well done, you believe in humanity'. But tell me how reasonable is this position?
Let me show you the unreasonable stance of their humanist position. One such humanist, in the article, declares himself to be an atheist-agnostic secular humanist. What a coalescence of contradiction mixed together by a supposedly university student. I can understand if you declare yourself to be an atheist, or an agnostic. But to mix all these up is just plain unreasonable. An atheist is someone who, by definition, proclaims that there is no God. On how this position can be tenable is another question, but by assumption, this is a position that claims to know something. An agnostic is someone who either claims that one cannot know God, or that one has insufficient evidences to determine the existence of God. So this student is claiming to know that there is no God and that he cannot know the existence of God? So he knows or does not know? My point here in bringing out this is the entire stupidity that people can come to when it comes to denying the existence of God. I am by no means saying that all atheists or agnostics are stupid people, but it is a bit worrying when you see a university student saying something so unreasonable to proclaim himself to be a reasonable person.
One interesting aspect of their proclamation is their belief in humanity. I have heard people sprouting the atrocities of religion, especially that of Christianity. However, I wonder if they have not heard of the atrocities committed by their own worldview of humanism. Marxist humanism, buttressed by Darwinist humanism, provided the ideological backdrop of Stalin's USSR and Mao's China. Nietzche's nihilistic humanism led to Hitler's Third Reich. Jean Paul Satre's existential philosophy (again a nihilistic one) let to Khmer Rouge. Can someone please let me know where on earth does these humanists reported in the article find their faith in humanity from?
Entering into absurdity is Catherine Lim's comment that she would rather have faith than have a faith. Have faith in what? What is she talking about? Of course she has a faith, known as humanism, the religion of humanity.
It is such development that sometimes makes me worry about the future of Singapore. Following the WCWM conference, I am even more convinced that Christ followers must emerge from the underground to gain the voice to speak out in the social media etc. Thio Li Ann was right when she said during the conference that humanistic philosophy has invaded the realm of modern education and in the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, we have educated ourselves into imbecility.
Let me show you the unreasonable stance of their humanist position. One such humanist, in the article, declares himself to be an atheist-agnostic secular humanist. What a coalescence of contradiction mixed together by a supposedly university student. I can understand if you declare yourself to be an atheist, or an agnostic. But to mix all these up is just plain unreasonable. An atheist is someone who, by definition, proclaims that there is no God. On how this position can be tenable is another question, but by assumption, this is a position that claims to know something. An agnostic is someone who either claims that one cannot know God, or that one has insufficient evidences to determine the existence of God. So this student is claiming to know that there is no God and that he cannot know the existence of God? So he knows or does not know? My point here in bringing out this is the entire stupidity that people can come to when it comes to denying the existence of God. I am by no means saying that all atheists or agnostics are stupid people, but it is a bit worrying when you see a university student saying something so unreasonable to proclaim himself to be a reasonable person.
One interesting aspect of their proclamation is their belief in humanity. I have heard people sprouting the atrocities of religion, especially that of Christianity. However, I wonder if they have not heard of the atrocities committed by their own worldview of humanism. Marxist humanism, buttressed by Darwinist humanism, provided the ideological backdrop of Stalin's USSR and Mao's China. Nietzche's nihilistic humanism led to Hitler's Third Reich. Jean Paul Satre's existential philosophy (again a nihilistic one) let to Khmer Rouge. Can someone please let me know where on earth does these humanists reported in the article find their faith in humanity from?
Entering into absurdity is Catherine Lim's comment that she would rather have faith than have a faith. Have faith in what? What is she talking about? Of course she has a faith, known as humanism, the religion of humanity.
It is such development that sometimes makes me worry about the future of Singapore. Following the WCWM conference, I am even more convinced that Christ followers must emerge from the underground to gain the voice to speak out in the social media etc. Thio Li Ann was right when she said during the conference that humanistic philosophy has invaded the realm of modern education and in the words of Malcolm Muggeridge, we have educated ourselves into imbecility.
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