Secular Big Questions and Answers
Q: Where do humans come from?
A: Most Secularist
accept scientific findings and Scientism interpretations,
so they would reply, more than likely, with a reference to the
theory of Evolution.
What Secularists hold is that there is no separate realm of
sacred reality called spirit or the supernatural. For them, there
never was
nor could be a place like the Garden of
Eden. Anything which you might describe as “spiritual” or “psychic” refers
to a specific material and/or physical characteristic of humans.
In the Secular Big Story there is no Garden of Eden, no holy place,
there is only human space and time, and that is sufficient. There is
no sense of being in exile. No longing for this Life on Earth to end
so that Life in eternity with God can begin anew.
Secularism often agrees with the Scientism Big Story,
but where the Scientism Big Story is derived from insights into the
broader implications
of the scientific method, Secularism pivots upon an assertion as to what
humans can do. In this light, a Secularist does not
necessarily rely
upon the scientific method for knowing. Rather he/she relies upon common
sense.
While “common sense” has no precise
definition, it is an affirmation that what is real and true can be
known by every human, using their five senses.
The sum of knowing through the five senses is one definition
of common sense.
To make
claims beyond any human sense is truly senseless.
For how can a human know other than what all humans
know?
As with Scientism, Secularism accepts no “special
knowledge,” no Revelation.
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