And what exactly does a humanist “pastor” do?
Calm fears with promises that once it is over, then nothing?
Relieve anxiety by stating that all the things they did meant nothing in the big scheme of things?
Prescribe suicide since there is nothing after life anyway?
As a pastor I know I can tell my flock that we serve a risen savior and a real person, not fake stories with no reality behind them.
Sounds like a therapist with access to better parking spots.
Since unbelievers are but dehumanized aspects of the evolving universe of energy he can also hold out the devil’s promise of godhood upon absorption of their spark or stream of consciousness into the divine one substance.
I guess humanist is the politically correct word for pagan.
Spread some variant of Marxism and work to destroy the home nation (via immigration, welfare spending, etc.).
Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die?
I think they are used more for ceremonies such as weddings and whatever equivalent to a Christening may be.
In fact my brother is due to be married by one in a couple of weeks, and I have attended such services before and they were harmless enough. Not a choice I would make, but harmless enough.
In the marriage context they do actually preach many of the same elements and themes of a traditional Christian ceremony, albeit without the religious foundations. If thatc’s a persons choice, so be it.
The weak kneed, liberal Church over here has self destructed. It seems the same vicious elements are working also on the Catholic church worldwide, and having great success.
” . . Calm fears with promises that once it is over, then nothing?”
At the end of the age, these are the ones we’re told about in Revelation Chapter 9, where they desire to die but death will flee from them,