The Way Forward: A New Christianity, Partition, and a General Operational Plan - Occidental Observer

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[–]meatball4u[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I lost my faith in God almost 16 years ago after taking psychology in university and then having a lot of turmoil in my life. I immediately (within moments) decided I was a humanist and went on a long journey to try and replace my religion with a secular lifestance. It largely failed to help me achieve success and happiness though. I think religions are evolutionary adaptations that get you to form habits that help you succeed in having a strong family and children, and lacking belief in god/gods (and perhaps fear of something unknown) leads to complacency and poor habits. There's something to be said about taking time to reflect daily and weekly about your life and your own faults so that you construct mental tools that help you overcome challenges or temptations when those moments come.

At this point I'm trying to decide if the label "humanist" fits me. Obviously humans are so wildly different that I would have to pick my race to be the focus of my humanism. So maybe I believe in Caucasian/European humanism. But it's so souless, I'm also fond of naturalist beliefs and wish I knew more about how European pagans practiced

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Secular humanism is tricky to reconcile with ethics and morality. There is really no reason for it to not devolve into consequential-ism or nihilism unless you cling to an esoteric virtue as a bedrock but that starts blurring the lines of humanism.