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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

This song is a good indication of the sentimentality with which hu-
manism, lacking any scientific or rational foundation, is imposed on the
masses. Humanism produces, and can produce, no rational objection to
religion or the truths it teaches, but attempts to employ suggestive meth-
ods such as these, which it regards as efficacious.
When the promises of the 1933 I. Humanist Manifesto proved vain,

forty years passed after which humanists presented a second draft. At the
beginning of the text was an attempt to explain why the first promises
had come to nothing. Despite the fact that this explanation was extremely
weak, it demonstrated the enduring attachment of humanists to their
atheist philosophy.
The most obvious characteristic of the manifesto was its preserva-
tion of the anti-religious line of the 1933 manifesto: (Surely Allah is be-
yond the expressions in the extract below.)
As in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially
faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, to
hear and understand their prayers, and to be able to do something
about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith… We believe ...that tra-
ditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions that place revelation, God,
ritual, or creed above human needs and experience do a disservice to
the human species... As nontheists, we begin with humans not God, na-
ture not deity. 38
These statements consist of humanist nonsense and represent a very

superficial explanation. In order to understand religion, one first needs
the intelligence and understanding to be able to grasp profound ideas.
The predisposition must be sincerity and the avoidance of prejudice. In-
stead, humanism is nothing more than the attempt of some individuals,
who are passionately atheistic and antireligious from the outset, to por-
tray this prejudice as being, in their own eyes, rational. And these en-
deavors are doomed never to bear fruit.

However, humanists’ irrational and illogical claims regarding faith

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