Humanism has the answers

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

The bog problem with Soviet Russia, I submit, was not humanism, it was totalitarianism. Stemmed from the foundation of the state by angry nihilistic revolutionaries, who sought to annihilate all power and institutions in society not subservient to themselves, and succeeded all too well.

Humanism was, for them, just one of their weapons.

I would think that true "Humanism" was not actually practiced in Soviet Russia. As you say, it was a perverse corruption of "Humanism" in the name of Communist totalitarianism.

In matter of fact, the primary government/nation that has been underwritten by Humanist principles is the United States. The Constitution if one of the most important Humanist documents in the history of mankind. Granted, there were errors, but that is what Humanism is all about: a continuing dialogue to find the correct answers to ethical considerations.

Quite different from religion, which basically claims to have an "absolute" answer to moral questions based on "holy books" that were supposedly "inspired" by divine guidance. Thus, the Bible was "thumped" to justify slavery in the Old South and to justify the attacks on gays at the present time.