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Give a critical account of the secularist’s claim that humanity can be emancipated  

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"Give a critical account of the secularist's claim that humanity can be emancipated." What is secularist? A secularist is one who in theory rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element. Secularist believes in a self-correcting system, identifies errors and corrects them or runs away from it. Karl Marx believes that religion is the sign of the oppressed and devastated. Humanity is what shapes us, the quality of being humane, our characteristics. According to Marx, he believes that human beings are creative beings or homo fabers. As homo fabers are creative beings, they are capable of destroying and renewing what they have created. Same logic works for their concept. They create their...

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