another peicemeal bit of a case I was building. If the government chose to demystify the secret society of the American Humanist Association, you could build it around a movie of 1800s history, in which a discussion of the civil war and any connection between Frog He Went A Courtin' and the Buchannan Presidency is kept in historical context with Alexis de Tocqueville [sic should be _Tocqueville_] and Karl Marx. T'ville believed in God, while Marx may have been less adamant about it [wikipedia says he was a hegelian and the Hegelians were atheist.] You could call it white hat v black hat humanism, and show atheist humanism is black hat, OR argue that H'ism doesn't really have historicity. Clearly it goes back to biblical times, b/c it speaks of worshipping and serving the creature more than the creator, so Human-ism isn't taht [sic should be _that_] new. The q is when did Paul Kurtz, Asimov and Arthur C Clark become its manifest representatives.
published Tue Jan 29/2008 - removed Sun Feb 24, 2008 (1509hrs)
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