As I've Said Many Times Before: Mazeppism Is A Humanism

My tariqa, al-Insaniyya, is world-wide and trans-sectarian. We are a beleaguered lot, nonetheless—especially my own branch of Romantic religious humanists, the Paterian. The Diaphaneite ideal is difficult to understand, much less to instantiate. But then, what ideal is not?

Tony Davies’s tongue-in-cheek definitions of “Humanism” and “Humanist” capture the difficulties involved in identifying as a Humanist quite nicely:

“Humanism: An undefinable term, possibly obsolete.
Humanist: A teacher and writer of books. A superman. A deluded wretch, deserving pity and contempt. None of the above. All of the above.”

(Tony Davies, Humanism, 2nd edition, London: Routledge, 2008, p. 150).

Add the qualifiers "Romantic," "religious," and "Paterian," and you find yourself a sect of one.

So be it.