TL&#x2F;DR I love Philosophy and Theology and the Modern Humanist has taken over a word and changed it to the point that the study of Humanism will be slanted by this modern view. No one should re-define a word so drastically.<p>&gt; For him, “humanism” was a word parallel to “theism”. It just altered the object worshiped, substituting humanity for God. He called it the “religion of humanity” and devised ritual forms for it that were close to traditional Christian ones.<p>Historical Humanism has been replaced by a modern definition that has no connection to the past. I went on a 5 day discussion on Reddit with the president of the American Humanism Association about this one thing.<p>Historically all the Reformation was founded by Humanist Philosophy. The founders of Humanism actually were translator of the Bible, but now for some strange reason Atheist&#x2F;Agnostics want the term to reassemble them and it really frustrated me.<p>Humanist were Theologians and Philosophers and now Humanism is try to mean Atheist&#x2F;Agnostic and that is not accurate to the Humanism movement.<p>To me it is dangerous to take over a term that has centuries of history and then simplify it to mean Humans over God.