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Subject: Re: objections to humanism
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 09:37:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 09:37:17 1984
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>  >What is wrong with humanism??
>  
>  Men set the standards in humanistic philosophy.
>  
>  A German Nazi of the Hitler years could easily consider himself a cultured
>  humanist.  Jews, Gypsies and certain others simply were not human.
>  -- 
>  
>                      Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo
>  
>    (Some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals can believe them)


It is certainly true that a Nazi COULD have considered himself a cultured
humanist.  The fact is, however, that nearly all Nazis DID consider themselves
Christians.
-- 

Dave Seaman
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags

"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."