Trading my Humanism for Nihilism

[rowland]

We’ve discussed this before:

Is secular humanism a faith? And is it a plausible faith?

[quote=“rowland”]This has come up in another context in this board, so let’s break it out here. It’s been asserted here that humanity is making steady progress, becoming more enlightened and more moral. It’s been further asserted that this is the result of human reason and man-made laws. If the first premise is false then the second is meaningless. And the first is on very shaky ground indeed. Reality: human upward progress is far from steady. History is full of republics falling to tryanny, o…