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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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.
Keep it up. The Muslims are overly exalted with happiness.
Excellent
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?
Baby talk for Islam?
But that might be too close to Buddhism for a true Humanist.Existence must have NO meaning.
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.
Ping for later
” . . 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,
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.When marriage is no longer a sacrament but a mere contract, tying two people together, even with the ornamental pretense of a traditional Christian ceremony, it no can longer be called marriage. And as a result you will see in post-Christian Western civilization what you're seeing today.
Marriage is many things to lots of religions and people. And I for one certainly understand, respect and appreciate the sanctity of the Christian version of this. Knowing various married couples of different ceremonial backgrounds, I am yet to witness any great difference between them in terms of the strength of their union, either at the point of marriage, or thereafter. Maybe I am missing something though.
Having attended such a ceremony, it certainly wasn’t business or contract like - it entailed an almost identical set of commitments and values as a religious ceremony.
Maybe it is the term of ‘marriage’ you take umbridge with, which may be a wrong choice of phrase on my part.
liberalism is finally revealing itself as the religion it is!
British Humanist Assoc “chief executive” Andrew Copson. “For a very long time, non-religious people haven’t been able to benefit in that same way from having a non-judgmental person to speak to who shares their outlook on the world.”
He somehow forgot that true Christians are called to be non-judgmental, especially if working with the sick.
Betcha psychology majors will pour into those positions.
The Lord wasn’t joking when He said “narrow is the road and few find it”.
The deception out there is thicker than most of us realize.
What I am trying to get across ineptly and cursorily, was laid out perfectly by G.K. Chesterton in his What's Wrong with the World.
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