The Wizard of Oz is Secular Humanist. They do not believe in a God and even the Wizard, whom they expect to have godlike powers, does not. They discover within themselves that they have had what they were looking for all along. Even Dorothy had always had the power to go home. They also believe that man is basically good and Dorothy trusts a lion to come with them. (He is not a man but he basically is; he talks and normal lions don't talk).
They cannot have a Cosmic Humanist perspective for 3 reasons
1. They do not believe that they are God because they are searching for a godlike figure to help them and that would defeat the whole point of their journey.
2. They rejoice when The Wicked Witch of the East dies but if they believed that everything and everyone is God, then they would be devistated.
3. They had a "government" of sort because The Wicked Witch of the East was oppressing them, it was not because they refuse to get in touch with their true inner selves. That's just pure crap.
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