"I'm a humanist."
"Are you? I'm a human."
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3 comments:
Jesus was a humanist himself, in so far as humanity was the focus of his missiona and purpose; to serve it and to love it.
So what that he was also God. God is also a humanist, in so far as he hungers after our liberation form our self-appointed doom.
If God's main interest were in himself, wouldnt this merely make him a narcissist?
I realise I am playing with the accepted meaning of the word 'humanist' as it relates to the merely evaluative notion of the empirircally human being the measure of all things and the sole determiner of value.
But why must the word human-ist have to exclude the transcendent in this way, be shackled to a false dichotomy of the non-human (God) being the enemy of man?
For me, the need to put a label on oneself is bizarre & childish. A word as a tatoo on our consciousness.
If you take it seriously, yes, you're right. But considered flexibly, we need these bean counters just to make sense of ourselves collectively, and to see and discuss patters, have debates.
Simililarly we are not our names but without our names: imagine the chaos.
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