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Old 08-19-2016, 10:05 AM   #247
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Well yes, obviously the most common criticism towards the writing of, say, John Lennon or Stephen Fry or Tim Minchin or Christopher Hitchens or Umberto Eco or Kurt Vonnegut or Margaret Atwood or Neil deGrasse Tyson or Karl Popper or Jean-Paul Sartre is that they're "bland".



Or you know, Gloria Steinem. Or Christopher Hitchens.



I'll give you Asimov though. And Roddenberry.

I wouldn't even view most of those people as humanists. They may have some humanist tendencies and be celebrated by humanist organisations, but I don't know that hey prescribed to the movement.

And (this isn't in response to you directly) my point isn't that each aspect of humanism is laughable, but that it as a whole (and specifically as a movement) is mostly ridiculous and ignorant.
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