Established State Religion?
Humanism: Established State Religion? Part 3 Friday February 27, 2004 One single religion is preached in public schools, and no other religion may compete with it within those walls. I refer to the religion of humanism. Sometimes, when religious fundamentalists like Ben Rast criticize modern secular humanism and accuse it of infiltrating our cultural institutions for the purpose of undermining them and eliminating all vestiges of Christianity from them, they are actually conflating secular humanism with cultural humanism. True, there is some overlap between the two and at times there can be quite a lot of similarity; nevertheless, they are distinct. Part of the problem for the argument made by religious fundamentalists is that they fail to understand that humanist traditions form the background of both secular humanism and cultural humanism. They seem to assume that Christianity, but especially Christianity
