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My readings on Humanism makes vivid an issue that I thought was a part of a cultural conflict in my local UU community where I had indicated I had not left the Catholic and the Mormon Church for another brand of the same constructions. As I reflect on the readings, I am inclined to think that this is the nature of traditional humanism to entertain the rigidity of what's familiar.
Clearly, if we are to be a part of a living religion or tradition, we are responding or will be responding to the needs of our time, “denouncing false ideologies'.
Despite some conservative forms of Humanism, Rev Dr. Schultz work demonstrating traditional humanist uneasy in the growth of the revolutionary world makes sense that as humanists

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