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08 Jun 2018, 6:46 am

Is it possible for a theist (any religion) to also be a secular humanist?


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08 Jun 2018, 9:39 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
Is it possible for a theist (any religion) to also be a secular humanist?


Well ... if you are a theist and you believe that the government should run on secular humanist laws, the secular humanists will likely admire you for that.


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08 Jun 2018, 10:23 am

They're far from mutually exclusive concepts as they are not associated with each other, and secular humanism is a man made ideology, but someone adhering to both belief systems simultaneously may be pressurized by atheist/rationalist group-think in the secular humanist community, especially if he or she believes in their own individually constructed spiritual belief system with undertones overlapping with something like Theosophy, Neo-paganism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism e.t.c.


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08 Jun 2018, 12:11 pm

The original secular humanists of the Eighteenth Centurey Enlightenment (including America's founding fathers) were basically that. Few, if any, espoused atheism, and most had religion (Christian, or Deist),but all espoused secular ideas about how to run government and society.



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09 Jun 2018, 9:31 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
Is it possible for a theist (any religion) to also be a secular humanist?

Yes, I think so. I think it is possible for someone to believe that there is a God, and at the same time, believe that not ALL morals / values come-from that God.





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10 Jun 2018, 7:08 am

Theoretically yes, in practice, probably not.



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12 Jun 2018, 2:13 am

I've always believed that one can be both, but wasn't sure.


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12 Jun 2018, 8:24 am

Like others pointed out, most of the Founding Fathers were Deists who believed that God created the world, then let us fight it out amongst ourselves.