re: #11 Zamb

What is with these guys and needing to use so many adjectives. I watched that documentary on the Texas school board stuff a while back, and they all seemed to think it was super important that people who disagree with them be described as “Secular Humanists.” Newt Gingrich was constantly insisting on specific words to describe liberals, and I have a friend who cannot type a sentence without adding in something like “Marxist Socialist” or “Communist Atheist.” I swear it’s like they think it makes them seem smart or can be used as a substitute for an actual argument.

en.wikipedia.org

Calling someone a “secular humanist” means something in the fundamentalist circles. Pretty much the definition of the implacable foe who is opposed to all you see as holy and good. Especially since it centers around a belief that man can be good and ethical without the threat of the big sky-daddy punishing you.