An atheism that deifies humanity ironically mirrors incarnational doctrine

Evidence

Typically, Adonis uses the term myth both to celebrate human creativity (ibda¯‘ ) and to unmask the authority of divine texts. His concern is with Reason, and with restoring to humanity its essential sacredness (qada¯sa). Echoing an earlier European (Feuerbachian) discourse, Adonis declares “Here the logic of atheism (ilha¯d ) means the restoration of humanity to its true nature, to faith in it by virtue of its being human… . The sacred (al-muqaddas) for atheism is the human being himself, the human being of reason, and there is nothing greater than this human being. It replaces revelation by reason, and God by humanity.” But an atheism that deifies Man is, ironically, close to the doctrine of the incarnation. The idea that there is a single, clear “logic of atheism” is itself the product of a modern binary—belief or unbelief in a supernatural Being. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 275

Categorization

• XREF: The point that putatively secular humanism structurally mirrors Christian theological categories (deified Man as incarnation) is exactly the Cooper/Asad bridge claim that secular modernity quietly carries Christian norms. — connects to: The human ideal of God is a self-contradictory synthesis of the in-itself and for-itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 67
• DEFINE: Asad frames the ‘logic of atheism’ binary (belief/unbelief in a supernatural Being) as itself a historically modern construct.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 275