Humanism - The Corruption of a Word
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 2:59 am
"The twentieth century witnessed an assault on a number of once fine words, often hollowing out the traditional meanings and filling them with sheer refuse. Myth, in the twentieth century, became lie. Love became lust. Another such word, lost in the confusion of our present whirligig of post-modern life, is humanism. To even those who would and should be friendly to the term react strongly to every one of its four syllables. For most of us not on the left, humanism has come to mean radicalism, atheism, arrogance, and secularism.
Frankly, this corruption of the word humanism is a tragedy almost at the level of the loss of the traditional meaning of love."
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.o ... -word.html
Frankly, this corruption of the word humanism is a tragedy almost at the level of the loss of the traditional meaning of love."
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.o ... -word.html