Evo-Atheism

The Humanist Association of Canada had its convention last week honoring its Humanist of the Year. According to this article in the Star.com by Stuart Laidlaw, Canadian Atheists prefer to be called Humanists. There are 16.3% of the population in the Canadian Atheist category now. And they consider themselves "good, without God".

Their "goodness" is based on evolution, and it is their "strong belief", Laidlaw's article points out:

"But what ties them together is a strong belief in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and a reverence for those who dedicate their lives to it.

One such person is Brian Alters, director of the Evolution Education Research Centre at McGill University and a speaker at this weekend's convention.

"He's the hero of evolution education," [kathy] Meidell [executive director of the Humanist Association of Canada] says."

Evolution and Atheism are indeed closely tied together. The ethic that results from such a wedding has been shown in the past to have helped produce Modernist tyrannies of unequalled viciousness and bloodiness. The original humanist manifesto had to be modified to gloss over the statements of institutional and state seizure.

These humanists are happy to report that evolution means a common bond between all living things, which means that,

"Because we are all one big family, it doesn't do you any good to hurt anyone else. And you wouldn't want to."

Being a member of the family of Man doesn't seem to confer any protection from the other members of the family of Man, as the ongoing genocides attest. It is not easy to conclude that these particular humanists are in full contact with reality. However, so long as they believe what they say, they are harmless. If they decide to take Darwin at his word, then matters change.

At least it is interesting to see an admission that Atheism/Humanism is strongly based on Evolution, and Darwin is their saint.