James Croft asked an interesting question in a public Facebook post.
Interesting question which came up at this Clergy Care Summit: what is a Humanist version of “Know that God Loves you?”
There’s a string of comments offering substitutes but they’re not fully convincing. My answer is that there isn’t one. (Ian Cromwell’s is good though – “We’re all in this together”. That has the advantage of being true, along with the disadvantage of being not nearly as comforting as the original.)
There can’t be a humanist or Humanist version of “Know that God Loves you” because people are free to project onto this imagined god the most perfect satisfying consoling love possible. They’re free to reconcile mutual impossibilities … Read the rest
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