Humanism's Delusional Dream?

... in crafting that fresh, more realistic vision, the signatories of the Humanist Manifesto II dutifully stuck to the same rut their predecessors had followed, confirming their earlier disavowal of a “prayer-hearing God assumed to live and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them.” Rather than “diverting people with false hopes” as theists do, Manifesto II boldly declared: “Human beings are responsible for what we are or will become. No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.”

The rationale seems to be that if we keep tweaking the recipe, keep massaging the blueprint, we will progressively evolve in our self-adaptive quest to eventually create a magical kingdom of unending peace, prosperity and good will. Comparing our world to the 1973 signatories’ assessment of the state of human progress in the early twenty-first century, I’m just not seeing the progress. It seems to me that assessment provides an eerily adequate description of things as they stand today (and as they stood at the start of the first century, for that matter). It seems we are trying to fix a seized engine with an oil change. Again and again we pour in and drain out different brands of motor oil in the delusional conviction that one of these formulas will do the trick. “This time, surely, we will get the engine to start.” Well, we won’t. Any brand of oil you pour into a seized engine will avail nothing. There are times you must replace the engine. Read the rest HERE