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  • And that reminds me a comment I read years ago that called sick, anti-humanistic humor, maybe from the 1960s on, a reaction to the sickly sweet, homogenized and homogeneous, unrealistic tone of popular entertainment that had preceded it.

    What's so unfunny about crime fiction, and why? Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • This leads to a third feature of creeds of authority: their scripture can become a convenient device for imposing irrational and even anti-humanistic laws and regimes.

    The Mother’s role in India spanning half a century Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • This leads to a third feature of creeds of authority: their scripture can become a convenient device for imposing irrational and even anti-humanistic laws and regimes.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Denigration of religious people is a denigration of people, and thus, anti-humanistic.

    Things are not what they seem 2008

  • Denigration of religious people is a denigration of people, and thus, anti-humanistic.

    Things Are Not as They Seem 2008

  • Some of us do find the anti-humanistic nativity scene offensive since it assumes we are all sinners in need of salvation and slaves who need to humbly bow to a dictator — in a country that is supposedly proudly rebellious, having fought a Revolutionary War to expel the king, sovereign and lord.

    Christmas decorations, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and a radio alert. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Some of us do find the anti-humanistic nativity scene offensive since it assumes we are all sinners in need of salvation and slaves who need to humbly bow to a dictator — in a country that is supposedly proudly rebellious, having fought a Revolutionary War to expel the king, sovereign and lord.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • This means that interest groups can achieve their pet private goals at public expense, whether genuinely environmental or not, or simply anti-humanistic and socialist/fascist power-grabbing ie, attempting to achieve non-environmental goals like the planetary redistribution of wealth.

    To Browsing Undergraduates « Climate Audit 2006

  • O'Connor's impatience with readers and critics who complained about the anti-humanistic distortion of her vision or the cruelty of her picture of God is understandable.

    Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names' 2005

  • He has become, in the years since, a kind of impossible object: a nonhistorical historian, an anti-humanistic human scientist, and a counter-structuralist structuralist.

    Stir Crazy Geertz, Clifford 1978

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