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Abstract:
Secular humanism’s inability to accommodate the universal presence of religion in human nature undermines its claim to be a viable world-view for mankind and diminishes its internal coherence.
Notes:
Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session [# ?]. Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/u/kluge_humanism.

Procrustes' Bed:

The Insufficiency of Secular Humanism

Ian Kluge

published in Lights of Irfán

16, pp. 49-92

Wilmette: Haj Mehdi Armand Colloquium, 2015

Abstract: The argument of this paper is that secular humanism’s inability to accommodate the empirically established universal presence of religion in human nature undermines secular humanism’s claim to be a viable world-view for mankind. This failure to live up to its self-proclaimed empiricism unleashes a cascade of consequences that undermines its internal coherence, diminishes its value as a rational argument and leaves the arguments for theism untouched.
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