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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beckychandler · F

The Church is comprised of sinners – there has never been any claim otherwise. Serious mistakes have been made both institutionally and by lay members and that will continue to be the case. The number of witches killed has been greatly exaggerated. However it is shameful – even though the vast majority were killed by secular courts. I am not aware of any gay pogroms. What is undisputed is that secular ideologies have killed exponentially more people than any religion. More people were killed in the twentieth century by these ideologies, which arose out of the so-called Enlightenment, than were killed in all of the previous centuries combined: See e.g. Which Killed More Religion or Ideology? http://bit.ly/1fC51d5