When words won't die: a dispiriting proposal. (Special Subsection: Religious vs. Secular Humanism).

Free Inquiry | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

Robert M. Price is right when he observes that the dispute between secular and religious humanists is ultimately semantic. Much of it turns on a quarrel over a single word: spirit. One reason many religious humanists call themselves "religious" is a sincere conviction that spirit denotes a genuine, ineradicable reality that religious humanism acknowledges and secular humanism denies. But what kind of reality? Malcolm D. Wise admits that "If one confines the word spiritual to its traditional meaning, then the spiritual quest is a gigantic illusion." Then he defends a broader ...

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