A Humanist God？ On the troubled Relationship Between Humanism and Religion Today  

作　　者：Marco Russo 

机构地区：[1]University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

出　　处：《Cultural and Religious Studies》2017年第4期190-195,共6页文化与宗教研究（英文版）

摘　　要：The relationship between humanism and religion has always been difficult, since the Renaissance. If we look at the Humanist Associations active today in the world, we find that the relationship has become almost a declared war. Religion appears to be the greatest enemy of humanism, i.e., of the humanity. Authentic humanism seems to be exclusively secular and atheistic： you can do good only if there is no God. In this contribution I look at some programmatic documents of Humanist Associations to understand the reasons for this contrast, in the background of secularization. The result is that some criticisms of religion -- its potential for violence and obscurantism -- are historically and theoretically justifiable but partial. Indeed, they show a poor and narrow vision of religion that leads to a narrow view of the human experience. A more complex vision of man requires a more complex vision of religion. A complex vision of man includes the most ＂irrational＂ and enigmatic aspects of our being, as love, death, pain, desire, imagination and even freedom and creativity. On this basis we can appropriately understand the historical and existential role of religion. Otherwise, if God is the one painted by humanists, God would not be good, let alone a good humanist.

关 键 词：HUMANISM RELIGION Humanist Associations SECULARISM secularization complexity existence TRANSCENDENCE 

分 类 号：N02[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学] B920[哲学宗教—宗教学]