Posted on 08/24/2016 2:10:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
With participation in traditional faiths at near-record lows, Britain is seeing the rise of what humanists describe as “pastors” for the non-religious.
Last month the University of Westminster in London broke new ground by appointing its first official secular advisor for students.
The move followed efforts by the British Humanist Association since 2014 to train more than 100 volunteers to go into schools, hospitals and prisons in order to provide counseling support for those who don’t believe in a deity.
Early this year hospitals run by Britain’s National Health Service in Leicester also saw their first humanist appointed to the local chaplaincy team. …
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So-called ‘humanist” pastors - pastors who don’t believe there is any Supreme Intelligence in the universe.
You can see where they’re coming from, since it’s so obviously the case that there’s no intelligence at all on Earth.
True. However, modern Humanism comes from the same root-—mereological nihilism—as Buddhism, Hinduism, and other mystical pantheist systems. Mereological nihilism posits that since matter is actually energy then everything consisting of physical matter is a mirage, or hologram, or the dream of Brahman (energy field/void) or some such thing. So physical existence is meaningless, Nirvana is a nowhere place for nobodies and absorption the only exit strategy for deluded Humanists who vainly hope to avoid the supernatural Judge of all men.
Please excuse me for hitting ‘post’ too quickly. The sentence, absorption is “the only exit strategy for deluded Humanists who vainly hope to avoid the supernatural Judge of all men,” should include ‘annihilation,’ even though annihilation really means the same thing as absorption in the final analysis. As well, Humanists of my acquaintance rarely if ever possess more than a very shallow understanding of what they profess to believe. Most of them wear a Humanist label like they would a watch. Furthermore, no Humanist, even the ones of greater understanding, are able to function within the narrow constraints of a worldview that reduces them to dehumanized aspects of energy in motion.
It’s prophesied to get a lot thicker before Jesus’ own return too (Luke 18:8, Rev. 12:9).
Interesting. My aunt got married in the Oakland Humanist Hall a few years ago. The ceremony was a cross between New Age practices and Jewish tradition (husband is a secular Jew), and the "minister" was an Asian female spiritualist.
Strangest wedding I've ever been to, and it sounds like it's not as unique as I though it was.
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