I think that Hegel himself provides the most prescient response to your objections in the way he describes the gradual process of secularization in the West. All of Western history, for him, is the way in which this process of secularization takes place - which is also why Nietzsche makes the same kinds of observations, but in a negative, critical sense. Rather than being opposed to Judeo-Christianity in some deep way, secular humanism is its ultimate development and natural outgrowth; the cat growing from the kitten.
The moral self-righteousness of the humanists is, for me, indistinguishable from that of "fundamentalists."
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Date: 2009-09-17 11:35 pm (UTC)The moral self-righteousness of the humanists is, for me, indistinguishable from that of "fundamentalists."