Steve Ghikadis is a Humanist Officiant, who conducts secular marriages, memorials, and other life affirming celebrations. Raised as a freethinker, Steve has been married to a Christian for over a decade. Steve serves as an Ambassador for Humanist Canada, Recovering from Religion, and Sunday Assembly.
I speak with Steve about his book, Humanism from the Heart. We discuss the many themes and ideas in his book, including:
- Why Steve tried to become a believer many times throughout his life
- Purpose, meaning, and destiny
- What “soft determinism” means
- The dynamics of a family with one Christian and one Humanist parent
- The value of the answer, “I don’t know”.
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Savannah Theory does a great job of explaining why less intelligent people are more needy, and therefore more religious. And as women have historically been more vulnerable, religion wedged itself right in there as a network of social services to support them with resources and community! Then with 80% of men being forced to chase the bottom 20% of women who've resigned themselves to the fact that they'll never get a shot with the top 20% of guys they really want, is it any wonder that otherwise-incels put up with religious woo woo to access whatever pussy they can get?
ReplyDeleteThe determinism/free will/randomness circle is easily squared if we don't confuse the level at which we operate as agents who have degrees of freedom with lower levels of reductionism on which such freedom is limited or absent, or simply different. Some of the constituent parts of our constituent parts can pass through walls, but they can't decide which door to use, as we can, so it says nothing about the human experience that we lack the former random freedom when what's relevant is that we very much have the latter deliberate constrained choice... Libet has been debunked and new experiments show quite clearly that the more complex the decision, the more conscious bandwidth is expended in taking it...