by Dennis Smith

Created on: November 26, 2008

As I was walking around my house one day, my brother noticed that I wobbled when I walked. This was due in large part because my front toes were spread apart from each other instead of parallel with each other.
This naturally caused my brother to tease me and say that I was a duck.

"I am not a duck," I angrily responded.

His reply, I believe, has something to say to this discussion. "If it walks like a duck, then it must be a duck."

You see Humanism has the important elements that all faiths must have. Lets briefly go over them. The first one is "faith" for all faiths must have faith. I was having a discussion with an atheist friend of mine and he was explaining to me how life originated from his view.
As he was talking about the ape like creature who evolved in to a human being, I could not help but ask him a couple of questions. "Where are the missing links I see in the charts at school?" Why can I go to the zoo and see apes, monkeys and people, but I cannot see any mid-like-creatures? At some point in the discussion the idea of faith came up. To which I responded; "It takes more faith to believe what you believe, than for me to believe what I believe."

"You are right, but I do not want to believe in God," He responded.

You see faith is the key element to any religion, because it is the fuel that ignites the will of the human soul to grow deeper in its knowledge and understanding of the object of their belief. Without faith any religion becomes a passionless, boring and dull exercise.
But add faith to your beliefs and you will find yourself dealing with emotions and energy that you never knew existed before.

For to have faith is to believe something, to believe something is to truly be alive. My life, breath, and complete existence are centered on my faith in the risen Lord Jesus Christ. The Humanist's faith is centered on the "Big Bang", "Evolution", highly evolved aliens, or what ever their belief consists of. To challenge the beliefs of any of us is to face a fight within the deepest and darkest places of our souls (much like a giant tree whose roots have been deeply planted in to the soil). To debate ones beliefs is to take on a fight that is heart to heart and soul-to-soul.

If one is going to believe that they are a Humanist they are going to have an element of faith to it, for they are not only going to believe it they are going to faithfully believe it. The Humanist faithfully believing that man evolved (though he did not see it), that we are the result of a

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