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Science, not Religion is the Reason for Human Suffering
Friday, March 30, 2007
Once again a humanist has charged Christianity with the singular distinction and sole responsibility for perpetrating all that is evil in the world.
"I don't think [religion] has brought, on balance, anything positive to anyone in the world," said Horst Klaus, an organizer of a Humanist society in Southern Ontario.
Apparently, experience has taught him that "religion" causes human suffering on a mass scale. Religion sows the seed of murderous venom - and the proof is "Nazi Germany's policy of religious bigotry" against the Jews.
Klaus of course is far too urbane for Christianity.
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"It's only by our own intelligence wits and reason we'll solve the problems of our times," he insists.
This isn't the first time such a profoundly ignorant and irrational claim has been made by a peddler of humanism, and unfortunately, it won't be the last either; however it is astonishingly un-urbane that humanists actually believe they are rational when they issue these incendiary declarations.
It never occurs to them that the bigotry and hatred they see perpetrated in the name of Christianity, is simply that: people using religion to justify their sins - and nothing else. Is it so hard to see that people commit evil in spite of, and not because of, religion?
Well two can play that game.
Let's look at the humanist claim that reason and science are the true saviors of humanity. And while we are at it, let's apply the same standard of intellectual "honesty" and purposefully ignore how reason and science are used - and let's see what kind of results we dig up.
If the history of philosophy teaches us anything, it teaches us that humans haven't a clue about anything. Humanists have got it all wrong. Unaided "reason" creates skeptics and causes deep despair even in academia; it doesn't produce the kind of "enlightenment" humanists like to brag about. And as to their confidence in "science", well it's responsible for global warfare and mass murder.
Patently absurd, you say?
Consider the eminent philosopher David Hume (1701-1777) - no friend of religion - he proved that reason used consistently actually reveals massive limits to human reason. Hume's theory was very complex, but he essentially stated that human reason couldn't penetrate into the nature of things. Reason only proves that there is "no cause and effect", that there is no "predictability" in the universe. Cause and effect is simply the "human mind associating sequence in our imagination", and nothing else. Therefore, Hume concluded that reason applied consistently should make us skeptics of everything. Reason proves only one thing, that humans don't know a thing.
Then there is Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) - also no friend of religion - he was driven to despair because of reason. Nietzsche reasoned that God was "dead" and that humans were finally free to go it alone. Life lies "bare before us" he said, like the barrenness of the sea.
The barrenness of life represented human freedom, but it also produced great anxiety. "Humans" have never had to go it alone before said Nietzsche. They have always had the comfort of a mythical God. So Nietzsche posited that in this new "barren" world nothing was a given, nothing had purpose and nothing was right or wrong.
How should humans deal with this barrenness? They must "will to power" he said. That is, humans must become the "Ubermensch" - superhumans - who by reason of their freedom must will "purpose" into existence and create their own morality.
Of course, Nietzsche's theory proved easier stated then actually lived out. And our resident humanist, Klaus, should take stock, for try as Nietzsche did, he could never quite become the superman he wanted to become. In his case "reason" drove him to despair - literally to insanity - and eventually Nietzsche crumbled under the darkness of his nihilism, and died with his barren reason.
And let's not forget Adolf Hitler (1898-1945) - definitely not a friend of religion, notwithstanding Klaus' interesting spin on history. Adolf is perhaps the most infamous disciple of Nietzsche. Hitler combined nihilism with a brand new political science: Fascism. Simply put, he politicized Nietzsche's "will to power" doctrine and applied it to German nationalism. Instead of the individual human "willing himself to power", Hitler had the German people rise out of the evolutionary slop to become the new super race. Hitler reasoned that German superiority could ultimately only be realized if lesser races were identified and exterminated. After all, with no God and no morality, there was ultimately no evil, just the survival of the fittest human race. Hitler's "solution" led to the mass extermination of human life all in the name of political "science".
So by using Klaus' standard and focusing on the lone bad apples the evidence proves the very opposite of what the humanist claims. Unaided reason, and not Christianity, is the sole perpetrator of all human suffering - after all it wasn't Christianity that created the atom bomb.
But that is one of the fundamental differences between humanists like Klaus and Christians like me. Christians recognize that people will act contrary to their stated principles and will use religion, as well as reason and science, counter intuitively and unjustly.
And ironically what this shows is that humanists are not only dishonest, they are deeply religious; despite all the empirical evidence to the contrary, humanists like Klaus continue to believe and put their faith in man's limited abilities to solve all the world's problems.
And that’s just unscientific.
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WARNED
Canada's Revolution Against Faith, Family and Freedom Threatens America by Tristan Emmanuel
This book is essential reading for both Americans and Canadians even though it is more particularly directed to our American friends. Both countries face a serious challenge to their cultures. This book exposes the radical exploitation of Canada at the hands of extremist activists, leftwing politicians and a plethora of crusading activist judges, who are using their status in Canada to get at America. Their aim is marriage. But the prize is America. They want to use marriage as a weapon to systematically destroy the Judeo-Christian civilization of North America, but to do that they need America to "go gay". Gay "marriage" will open up America to the rest of the demands of the homosexual political movement. Everything from school curriculum to parental rights, adoption, the age of consent and religious freedoms will be up for grabs once gay "marriage" is made legal in America. Unless socons in both countries unite and work to resist these political opponents, we can kiss our continent good-bye.
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