There is no such thing as a secular humanist. Take it from someone who believed himself to be one for many years: eventually I realised that secular humanism is built on sand, trading off moral assumptions the basis of which it denies. The only real humanism is a Christian one.
The only truly logical paths for the sincere atheist are Nietszchean amoralism (dressed up in some other form perhaps) or just utter nihilism. Of course, it is possible those worldviews are true, which is very, very bleak. But they are the options my heathen friends
What it boils to is: you cannot keep the fluffy bits of Christian morality and get rid of all the inconvenient dogmas and beliefs and expect to come out with a coherent or plausible worldview at the end of it. It is the ultimate having your cake and eating it
Most common form of this: 'I ❤️ Human Rights. I don't believe in an objective moral reality underpinned by God or laws of nature, but somehow er...universal, immutable human rights are...er...a thing. You just point at stuff and say 'I have a human right to that', & hey presto!'
I see a lot of trends in academia in my job, & what I see increasingly is that the mushy secular humanist centre cannot and will not hold among intellectuals. Many are becoming active anti-humanists (a more logical if more horrifying position). So we must choose: Christ or chaos
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