Seasonal Pot and Kettle Meetup In Olympia

"May reason prevail" and may tolerence, class, and history be damned.

It seems as though these groups crusading against Christmas often define themselves as humanists. Now, I am natually inclined to make the argument that calling other humans who believe differently from you hard hearted mind enslavened superstionists, is hardly being a humanist. (whatever that means) Then I got to thinking, this sign represents an additude all too human. Who doesn't snark at people who are so obviously (say awwwviously) less intelligent than they are. (see the view from Lake Wobegonee which is simply mawwwvelous dawwwling) How could anyone compare Christ's views of "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you" to following the existential humanist track of "struggling to make freely willed humane choices in the absence of clear, unambiguous moral guidance"?

Oh that's right I forget, Christianity is just a ruse, using James Bowman's mocking reference to a humanistic view of literature, " [to] reinforce the patriarchal, imperialist, racist, and homophobic foundation on which traditional societies have been built."

This feels to me like more of the same progressive hogwash, that anything new is better precisely because of the reason mentioned above. Jesus Christ did exist, it's a fact of history just as much as King Solomon existed. This is just another sign of History's dissapearance. Anymore history is seen as nothing but an imperfect version of the present. Lest we forget though, as I think it was Gombrich that said, anytime there is a gain in one direction there is a loss in another.

Do I really care if these people want to put up this sign, no. That's everyone's right. Do I shudder at the prospects of a "Humanist" future? Youbetcha!