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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: A kudos for humanism
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 00:55:13 EST
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Every time I see one of those "evils of humanism" articles,
I have to laugh.  If you believed these tirades, you'd think
that humanism was invented in the libertine 1960's by some
drugged-out hippie.  You ignorant twits--what do you think the
Renaissance was all about?  Secular humanism dates back at
least to Plato, perhaps its most eloquent proponent.  Go ahead,
rage against it with all the earth-centered, close-minded innocence
of a Medieval pope.  Your tantrums are kind of cute, though
their stupidity is awesome.

Humanism posits a reality--out there--that man can aspire to
know *irrespective* of any states of grace.   He who would
crush humanism mutters that Galileo got off too easy, and spits
on Copernicus, Vesalius, Newton, DaVinci, and Descartes.

Humanism is an affirmation of the very best that is within us.
-- 
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