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| | Humanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Humanism is an active ethical and philosophical approach to life, focusing on human solutions to human issues through rational ("reasonable") arguments, without recourse to a god, gods, sacred texts or religious creeds. | | | Other types of people that may be considered "religious humanists" are those who, despite believing in an organized religion, don't consider it necessary to derive all their moral values from that religion. | | | The crisis of "Renaissance humanism" came with the trial of Galileo; for it (the trial) forced the choice between basing the authority of one's beliefs on one's observations, or upon religious teaching. |
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| | What is Humanism? |
| | The definition of religion used by Religious Humanists is a functional one. | | | Religious Humanism is usually without a god, without a belief in the supernatural, without a belief in an afterlife, and without a belief in a "higher" source of moral values. | | | Because of this, Religious Humanism should not be seen as an alternative faith, but rather as an alternative way of being religious. |
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http://www.jcn.com/humanism.html
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| | Theism and Religious Humanism: The Chasm Narrows |
| | In fact, the religious humanist is obliged to establish that the principle is implicit in those forms of theism in which it is not explicitly acknowledged. | | | Thus, rather than building its theological superstructure on the ashes of a rebutted theism, religious humanism grounds itself in a principle that obtains whether God is or is not, whether the Transcendent is good, indifferent or demonic, and whether God is or is not the creator of humankind. | | | Humanism has also been viewed as a hostile adversary, bent on the extermination of religion in general and the execution of Christian theism in particular. |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1874
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| | Image: Art, Faith, Mystery |
| | Religious humanists are, by and large, men and women of letters who command no legions, and who go about their work without much taste for manifestos and movements. | | | Perhaps the best analogy for understanding religious humanism comes from the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, which holds that Jesus was both human and divine. | | | Flannery O'Connor, one of the great religious humanists of the twentieth century, wrote of the effect her faith had on her writing: "There is no reason why fixed dogma should fix anything that the writer sees in the world. |
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http://www.imagejournal.org/back/016/editorial.asp
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| | THE RELIGIOUS FACE OF HUMANISM |
| | Likewise, if modern humanism claims to be a religion, has characteristics of a religion, acts like a religion, and also has been declared, legally, to be a religion, then it must be a religion, notwithstanding denials now coming from some humanists who previously said that humanism is a religion. | | | Humanism not only claims to be a religion and it not only has all the characteristics of religion, but it also acts consistent with its claims and characteristics. | | | Christians are rightly concerned that humanism be recognized as a religion, and that as a religion humanism is currently being taught in public schools. |
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http://www.biblicaltheism.com/religface.htm
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| | Religious Humanism - Humanism Today, Volume 12 |
| | It was the age of Confucius and Lao-tzu of China, the Upanishads of ancient India, of Buddha the Enlightened One, Zoroaster religious prophet of Persia, and the Hebrew prophets Elijah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. | | | Religious Humanism requires a reverence for the earth and an understanding of human interdependence, both material and spiritual, with the rest of nature. | | | Her method of truthseeking is at the heart of the liberal religious faith and religious education. |
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http://www.humanismtoday.org/vol12/hoertdoerfer.html
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| | Religious Humanism |
| | The religious humanists were convinced that religion was created by humans, not gods, who always speak the words of humans. | | | Unlike the traditional understandings of religion, even the more liberal ones, it repudiated belief in God, the belief that humans could not be moral without the concept of God to support morality, and the belief that humans were immortal in any personal sense. | | | The goal of religion is to promote the spiritual in humans, understanding that spiritual has relevance only between birth and death. |
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http://www.humanistsofutah.org/1996/artapril96.htm
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| | Humanism Definitions. |
| | Humanism is called "religious" by those who regard it as their personal creed. | | | Religious humanism is merely those humanists who define humanism as their own variety of "religion." | | | It seems that the distinction between a religious humanist and a secular humanist lies in how the individual regards the definition of religion. |
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http://members.aol.com/deca10x/humanism.htm
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| | HUMANISM |
| | Religious Humanism is similar to secular humanism, except that it is practiced in a religious setting with fellowship and rituals, as in Ethical Culture Societies, congregations associated with the Society for Humanistic Judaism and groups affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association. | | | Religious Humanism has been loosely defined as religion with matters of deity worship and traditional theological belief deleted. | | | In that context, Humanism is definitely not a religion, and would not be perceived as one by many of its followers. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/humanism.htm
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| | Can Public Schools Be Religiously Neutral? |
| | But is Humanism a true religion or are the traditionally "religious" people just calling it a religion because they can not share or practice their type of religion in the public schools? | | | Although Eastern religious practices and Judeo-Christian sects are without a doubt considered by most as "religious", the labeling of Humanism or Secular Humanism as a religion, and possibly the dominate religion in our public schools, needs some clarification. | | | Acknowledging that all humans have a spiritual nature and that different people seek spiritual truth in different ways would be a start. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/humanities/neutral.html
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| | 4a: Early Enlightenment Precursors to Religious Humanism |
| | Both Secular and Religious Humanism have roots in the Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, during the 17th and 18th centuries. | | | Humanism - 4a: Early Enlightenment Precursors to Religious Humanism - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/humanism/86312 | | | Fox objected to political and religious authority and opposed war and slavery. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/humanism/86312
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| | 367 Liberal Religious Humanism: Toward a New Synthesis |
| | She went on to describe two basic kinds of religious humanism that she observes in UU congregations: magisterial humanism and elementary humanism. | | | In the philosophical, scientific, economic and social realms, all of which have informed the liberal religious tradition including religious humanism, many people today are skeptical of truth claims, sometimes producing a moral cynicism and even a kind of crankiness. | | | Continuing in the FRH tradition of "exploring the religious factor in humanism and the humanist factor in religion," the panel addressed the question: Is a new humanist consensus emerging within the theological pluralism of the UUA? |
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http://www.uua.org/ga/ga00/367.html
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| | Optimistic Secular Humanism |
| | Signed by many of the leading atheistic scholars of that day, it was the benchmark test for so-called "religious humanism" up until 1973, and continues to embody many of the key values of this world view. | | | Far from being one who has entered the light of scientific objectivity, the secular humanist is often involved in blind faith of the worst kind. | | | The cultivation of moral devotion and creative imagination is an expression of genuine, 'spiritual' experience and aspiration." The authors quickly add, however, that "traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions. |
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| | Curtis W. Reese: Statesman of Religious Humanism |
| | Generally, Reese's books are short, contain insight, but are somewhat thin in the development of problems; however, they do document his interest in the movement of religious humanism and add greatly to an understanding of it. | | | It was during his seminary studies that Reese first began to have any doubts about his religious faith. | | | On June 5, 1961, while attending a Board of Directors' meeting of the Meadville Theological School and the commencement exercises, Reese died of a coronary attack; and with his passing another pioneer of religious humanism faded from the religious scene. |
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http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/reese.html
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| | Humanism |
| | This Part 6A, the first half of the essay on the 19th century precursors to Religious Humanism. | | | Precursors to Secular Humanism during the Enlightenment, including: Pantheism, the Encylopedists/Materialists, the Philosophes, Skepticism, and the Democrats. | | | Intro to Humanism Part 6A: 19th Century Precursors to Religious Humanism |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/humanism
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| | HUUmanists |
| | Formerly The Friends of Religious Humanism, an affiliate organization of the the Unitarian Universalist Association, the HUUmanists was founded by Edwin H. Wilson, Lester Mondale, and others in 1962 as the "Fellowship of Religious Humanists" to advance humanism within the Unitarian-Universalist denomination and to promote religious humanism in general. | | | “To enhance, promote, practice and enjoy humanism in liberal religion, and to provide a continental organization for those who consider themselves humanists within the UUA. | | | What we offer is a chance for you to join in our search for the meaningful life without dogma and using the best tools of both mind and heart, both reason and compassion. |
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http://www.americanhumanist.org/hsfamily/huumanist.html
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| | The Forgotten Bible |
| | “The Religious Humanism of the Modern Evangelical Church: | | | This manuscript began as a doctoral thesis, and is here enclosed for your consideration. | | | the result being so appealing to the carnal nature of humanity. |
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http://www.theforgottenbible.org
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| | Religious Humanism |
| | Religious Liberty and Religious Extremism by Bill Moyers | | | Celebrating 40 Years as the Voice for Humanism within the UUA | | | The Academy and the Pulpit: 1930s-Style Humanism at Columbia University by Stephen P. Weldon |
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