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 idea by themselves so, unlike Homo sapiens, they are capable of freely reconstructing it as well. Feminism is also a form of humanity which focuses on the female gender.

Emancipated means to be free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; to be liberated. Emancipation is the attempt to achieve freedom so that we can deliver human intelligence and creativity. But power is what blocks the emancipation of freedom. Where there is power, there will be corruption, and where there is corruption, people will be oppressed.

During the past century, women have been slowly emancipated from the early days where they are disadvantaged because of their sex, and the female gender is exploited. But during the past few decades, the term 'feminism' has only been a familiar part of everyday language since the 1960s. It is invariably linked to the women's movement and the attempt to advance the social role of women. As such it is associated with two basic beliefs: that woman are disadvantaged because of their sex; and that this disadvantage can and should be overthrown. In this way feminists have highlighted what they see as a political relationship between the sexes, the supremacy of men and the subjection of women in most, if not all, societies. Nevertheless feminism has also been characterised by a diversity of views and political positions. The women's movement, for instance, has pursued goals that range from the achievement of female suffrage. The establishment of equal access to education and an increase in the number of women in the elite positions in public life, to the legalisation of abortion, the ending of female circumcision and the abolition of restrictive or demeaning dress codes. Similarly feminists have embraced both revolutionary and reformist political strategies, and the feminist theory has at times drawn upon quite different political traditions and values.
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Hilary Rose depicts that during the 1970s gender divisions were rarely considered to be politically interesting or important. If the very different social, economic and political roles of men and women were considered at all, they were usually regarded as 'natural' and therefore inevitable. For example, men, and probably most women, accepted that some kind of male-female division of labour in society was dictated by the simple facts of biology: women are suited to a domestic and household existence by the fact that they can bear and suckle children, while the greater physical strength of men suits them ...

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