OT <I am sorry, but I never accepted that definition>
That's because you are Enlightened, and have lost the certainty of the pre-Enlightened and UnEnlightened. That certainty has tremendous, perhaps universal, appeal. As almost everyone in the streets of Karbala will tell you.
A religion has to explain everything. The only practical way to do that, is to repeatedly resort to saying, "Only God knows why He did that." Or to have some person at the top of a heirarchy, a person who gets to speak for God.
The strength of Secular Humanism is its flexibility. Every postulate, every assumption, every theory, can be thrown out if the facts change, without weakening belief in Secular Humanism. None of the other religions have that flexibility. The only ones that come close, are the ones that say God in unknowable, admitting that every person, even the most holy and powerful, can make mistakes about what God wants. The problem here, is that this very flexibility undermines the sense of certainty. And erodes Earthly Order and Stability. It's a trade-off. |
