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History has had enough humanist religious figures that the term doesn't fit well with atheist.
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A long time ago. Humanism has been associated with deism, pantheism, and atheism for the last couple centuries, however, and has become very secularized in the last hundred years. Please stop your asinine use of language.
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A humanist is concerned with worldly views and is not required to lack belief. There have been humanist popes, who in addition to expanding the power of the church meddled in political affairs and wars.
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That's nice, but the term 'humanist' is usually applied negatively when used by the religious today, mostly because they know it refers to secularists. There are still some people who are genuinely religious who consider themselves humanists, but they typically aren't the topic of conversation (ergo, the activity of contemporary language) because they aren't controversial enough.
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Humanitarianism is also a religion at least in the US where its "clergy" are able to claim the tax status enjoyed by other religions.
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Because one judge decided a form of it functioned enough like a religion to warrant tax exempt status, but it has also been noted that under no public law is it considered a religion.
For the record, I am not a humanist.