LG>KK> Interestingly, one way the creationists have been trying to get
LG>KK> creationism taught in science classes is by arguing that 'scientism'
LG>KK> and 'humanism' are religions and therefore on a par with creationism.
LG>KK> If you are planning on using the above dictionary definition as an
LG>KK> authority, you might want to note that according to it, nothing in
LG>KK> science or humanism is religion.
LG> And interestingly enough, in Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary,
LG> humanism is defined as "a system or attitude in thought, religion, etc.,
LG> in which human ideals and the perfection of personality are made 
ntral".
It could be argued that the development of human political thought
over the last 10,000 years is the development of the concept of
the individual.  People in many Stone-Age tribes of today do not
feel themselves to be individuals but rather fractions of the tribe.
In that sense, the US Constitution is the greatest and also the
most radical document in human history, becuase it defines
government as the consent of the governed, or the will of the
people.  AFAIK it is the first document in history to state that
Government does not inhere in a father-figure or an alpha male.
So we're all revolutionaries, really.
LG> Hmmmm...
LG> Now how could anyone equate *that* with a religion?
Disoportunadamente, we humans seem to have the ability to make
an ideology (religion) out of whatever belief we absorbed at
the age of about 4 or 5.  After that, we don't think it's
'religion' or 'belief,' we think it's 'reality.'
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