Is Humanism a worthy alternative to religion? No, Realism is.

SHOOT: I would have thought so, it might be a start, but we probably need something more radical. Our problems are simply too vast, and our delusions too deep for us to simply inch away from previously held beliefs and the perpetuation of bad habits and myths. What we need is a fundamental paradigm shift. I'd suggest Realism. [Moral realism among others].

WIKI: We can say that a moral belief is false or unjustified or contradictory in the same way we would about a factual belief.

clipped from blog.atheist.ie Put simply, the tenets of humanism do not represent a radical departure from those of any major religion. It establishes itself on the same fallacies, the same baseless assumptions, and strives for a society modelled in essentially the same manner; with the caveat of not demanding god’s existence or worship. In this sense, it may actually be a more sinister and less consistent worldview – here are supposed naturalists and empiricists modelling their ethics on pseudoscientific claims while simultaneously derogating such acts: the first item on the aforementioned manifesto states that “Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis”. … humanism is opposed because it does not set the ‘humanitas’ of man high enough.” What’s needed is a paradigm shift, not a fudged compromise.