What is the greatest form of humanism? [Spirituality & Religion]

“Christianity is the greatest humanism that has ever appeared, indeed that could ever appear. No philosophical or political or religious program in history – neither Greek nor Renaissance nor Marxist humanism – has ever made a claim about human destiny as extravagant as Christianity’s. We are called not simply to moral perfection or artistic self-expression or economic liberation but to what the Eastern fathers called theiosis, transformation into God.” ~ Bishop Robert Barron, in Catholicism – a Journey to the Heart of the Faith , pg. 2 http://amzn.to/1DXgm2o

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EarthlingWise

Christianity contains essential humanistic values like equality between fellow human beings, but it remains a religion, with a punishment and reward system (hell/ paradise)and rules (dogma/ commandments) that are to be followed without questioning-- while humanism emphasizes critical spirit, blind obedience to a very hypothetical entity.

beckychandler · F

where did you plagiarize this from?

EarthlingWise

@beckychandler: That's not the way I function.

LegendofPeza · 61-69, M

@beckychandler: Beyond your wit is it ?