COM 325 / Week #5 Discussion: Humanism: A Secular Worldview
Tell us something you know about humanism as a secular worldview. What is the difference between religion as a worldview and humanism as a worldview? What do you prefer if you have to make a choice, and why?
Humanism as a secular worldview has their own set of guidelines and beliefs that socializes the value of people both individually and as a group. Secular humanism prefers individual thought and science over faith. There is no place for the supernatural or immaterial. There is no place for the humanist worldview for immortality or God. Moreover, humanists believe that instead of Gods creating the universe, individuals use their imagination, creating the Gods or faith. Religion as a worldview believes that religion links it directly to life and how we live it as well as human existence. Humanism as a worldview denies the existence of God and rather look for scientific proof looking for the explanation of life as we know it. I don’t really have an opinion or a choice in which I prefer. Both have good arguments. I believe it boils down to faith in any one God you choose to worship. Science hasn’t proved one way or another that there truly is a God or there isn’t. I am not a religious person at all. Do I believe there is a higher power out there? Yes. Is there some form or fashion of explanation for how everything was formed or made” Sure. Will we ever know? Probably not. It all comes back to what that individual places their faith into and what they want to believe. I believe for me it is a mixed bag of beliefs with not one form of standards.
Humanism as a secular worldview has their own set of guidelines and beliefs that socializes the value of people both individually and as a group. Secular humanism prefers individual thought and science over faith. There is no place for the supernatural or immaterial. There is no place for the humanist worldview for immortality or God. Moreover, humanists believe that instead of Gods creating the universe, individuals use their imagination, creating the Gods or faith. Religion as a worldview believes that religion links it directly to life and how we live it as well as human existence. Humanism as a worldview denies the existence of God and rather look for scientific proof looking for the explanation of life as we know it. I don’t really have an opinion or a choice in which I prefer. Both have good arguments. I believe it boils down to faith in any one God you choose to worship. Science hasn’t proved one way or another that there truly is a God or there isn’t. I am not a religious person at all. Do I believe there is a higher power out there? Yes. Is there some form or fashion of explanation for how everything was formed or made” Sure. Will we ever know? Probably not. It all comes back to what that individual places their faith into and what they want to believe. I believe for me it is a mixed bag of beliefs with not one form of standards.
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