Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Cosmic Humanism or Secular Humanism?

In the Wizard of Oz the worldview is Secular Humanism. This can be seen throughout the movie whether it be through how Dorothy, the tin man, and the lion discover who the wizard is, or how they solve their problems. When all of the main characters go out to find the answer to their problems they think that the wizard can do it. When they finally get to talk to the wizard they discover that he is really not a wizard at all but in fact a fake. This models Secular Humanism, because secular humanists do not believe that we as humans need a "god" like figure to answer our problems. So when Dorothy and all the others realize that the wizard is a fake, they also come to know that they themselves can fix their problems and that they do not need someone to do it for them. They soon come to discover that they have had it in themselves the whole time, for example Dorothy finds out that all she had to do to get home was tap her shoes together, and she did not need the wizard to take her home. All of these characters find out that there is no wizard, just like secular humanism which states that there is no god.

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