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| Â | What is Secular Humanism? |
 | | Secular humanists accept a world view or philosophy called naturalism, in which the physical laws of the universe are not superseded by non-material or supernatural entities such as demons, gods, or other "spiritual" beings outside the realm of the natural universe. | | | Secular humanists typically describe themselves as atheist (without a belief in a god and very skeptical of the possibility) or agnostic (without a belief in a god and uncertain as to the possibility). | | | Secular humanists hail from widely divergent philosophical and religious backgrounds, ranging from Christian fundamentalism to liberal belief systems to lifelong atheism. |
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http://www.secularhumanism.org/intro/what.html
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| Â | Secular Humanism: Right for America? |
| | Secular Humanists typically describe themselves as atheists (without a belief in a god or very skeptical of the possibility) or agnostics (without knowledge of a god and uncertain of the possibility). | | | Secular Humanists do not accept as true the literal interpretations of the Old or New Testaments, nor other allegedly inspired books such as the Koran. | | | Secular Humanists do not hold the many varieties of sexual expression as evil. |
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http://home.flash.net/~bob001/SecularHumanism.htm
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| Â | HUMANISM |
| | Humanists do not generally believe in a supreme deity or deities, demons, ghosts, angels, in a supernatural world, in heaven and hell, or in a divinely ordained ethical code for humans to follow. | | | Being secular Humanists, they reject the concept of a personal God, and regard humans as supreme. | | | Many Secular Humanists feel that the role of religion throughout history has been so profoundly negative, that the word "religion" should not be connected to their philosophy. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/humanism.htm
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| Â | What Is Humanism |
| | Secular Humanists maintain that there is so much in religion deserving of criticism that the good name of Humanism should not be tainted by connection with it. | | | Secular Humanists often refer to Unitarian Universalists as "Humanists not yet out of the church habit." But Unitarian- Universalists sometimes counter that a secular Humanist is simply an "unchurched Unitarian." | | | Humanists therefore recognize that we live in a natural universe of great size and age, that we evolved on this planet over a long period of time, that there is no compelling evidence for a separable "soul," and that human beings have certain built-in needs that effectively form the basis for any human-oriented value system. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/fred_edwords/humanism.html
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| Â | Secular Humanism is a Religion |
| | Secular Humanist teachers and school administrators (who are protected by the "free exercise" clause of the First Amendment as members of tax-exempt religious organizations and religious conscientious objectors) are free to propagate their views in schools, but Christians are not. | | | Here is the rule: When Secular Humanists want the benefits of religion, Secular Humanism is a religion. | | | Secular Humanism has been granted tax-exempt status as a religion. |
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http://members.aol.com/Patriarchy/definitions/humanism_religion.htm
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| Â | The Moral Education Of Secular Humanists |
| | Not surprisingly, it is in the area of sexual morality that Secular Humanists in the liberal societies of the West pride themselves on the "progress" they have made. | | | The addition of the words "as their exclusive property" adds to the contradiction since the Secular Humanist statement is claiming truth as its own property; it is actually a sect setting up a list of doctrinaire declarations. | | | Curiously, they remain spiritually myopic concerning Secular Humanism as an ultimate belief-system which may be said to constitute a religion. |
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http://credo.stormloader.com/Morals/moraledu.htm
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| Â | Creation Bits Number 25 |
| | But the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1961, found that Secular Humanism is a religion. | | | A large percentage of evolutionists consider themselves to be Secular Humanists, which they often consider to be a philosophy, not a formal religion. | | | "Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others." |
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http://www.rae.org/bits25.htm
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| Â | Great Lakes Humanist Society- michigan,atheism, humanism, agnosticism, skepticism, atheists, atheist, humanists, ... |
| | Great Lakes Humanist Society- michigan,atheism, humanism, agnosticism, skepticism, atheists, atheist, humanists, agnostics, agnostic, skeptics, humanist, free thought, mount pleasant, mi, freethinkers, evolution, deist, deism, darwin, rationalists, naturalism, naturalistic, secular, secularism, secularists, secularist, freethought, science, secular humanism, reason, rational thought | | | It's mission is to foster a community of humanists, dedicated to improving the human condition through rational inquiry and creative thinking, unfettered by superstition, religion, or any form of dogma. | | | To provide a forum for intelligent exchange of ideas for those seeking fulfillment in an ethical secular life. |
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http://glhumanist.org/
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| Â | Secular Humanists |
| | There have long been religious humanists who look to religious teachings for the motivation and authority to act on behalf of others and for the rules to guide outreach to feed the poor, aid the sick, attend to the neglected, and so forth. | | | The secular (or freethinking) humanists operate without reference to supernatural interference or direction. | | | Freethinking humanists do not place limitations on their areas of human concern due to scriptural teachings (e.g., excluding certain groups from beneficence). |
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http://www.teachingaboutreligion.com/Freethought/humanists.htm
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| Â | apricot: CofA Project Part 1c: Animal Rights |
| | Secular humanists have called their beliefs a religion, and yet it seems that laws ARE being made to establish that religion and prohibit another. | | | And, if they are only allowed to be taught from a secular position, that definitely imposes an unfair bias. | | | This is why some people get really nervous about religious parents who home school their own children - if it's not allowed in the schools, why in home school? |
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http://www.apricotpie.com/jennifer/CofAProjectPart1cAnimalR.html
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| Â | Central Virginia Secular Humanists - Atheists, Agnostics, Brights, Free Thinkers in Charlottesville |
| | Central Virginia Secular Humanists, or CVSH, is a chapter of Washington Area Secular Humanists, or WASH, which was incorporated in 1989 as a non-profit, educational organization. | | | Central Virginia Secular Humanists - Atheists, Agnostics, Brights, Free Thinkers in Charlottesville | | | A Chapter of Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH) |
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http://cvsh.wash.org/
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| Â | Northern Virginia Chapter, Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH) |
| | Richard will talk about his experiences in moving from a religious to a secular humanist life stance. | | | Dr. Bergmann concluded by examining policy alternatives on religious and secular attitudes toward single parenthood and poverty and secular and religious fixes for them. | | | Let Willard know!(spurk@erols.com) The topic does not need to be related to religion or secular humanism -- science, history, current affairs, and almost anything else is fair game. |
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http://nvc.wash.org/
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| Â | Washington Area Secular Humanists: Home Page |
| | If you have answered "yes" to these questions, we invite you to learn more about secular humanism, and the Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH). | | | If you are looking for a community of people who pursue a meaningful life without religion, or are examining your beliefs and wish to explore humanist approaches to knowledge and values, membership in WASH is an excellent place to begin. | | | I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. |
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http://www.wash.org/
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| Â | Arizona Secular Humanists E-Mail Blaster |
| | After you reply to the prior e-mail you will be E-Mailed a message saying you are a member of the Arizona Secular Humanists list server | | | And follow the instructions on how to join the Arizona Secular Humanists list server | | | ASH letters - some interesting letters written by ash members |
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http://azsecularhumanists.tripod.com/
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| | For that reason, the atheist might say he or she is a freethinker or a secular humanist or a rationalist, labels which say what the person is, positives rather than negatives. | | | The Fourth Universalist Unitarian Church (212-595-8410) rents the church for $300 plus minister's fees of about $200--that minister has been known to marry people while riding the Coney Island Cyclone. | | | " is an umbrella label for those who are atheists, rationalists, secular humanists, and other kinds of non-believers. |
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http://fanny.humanists.net/
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| Â | WASH: Publications |
| | The name, we agreed, would have to include the word "secular" even though we considered it redundant when modifying the word "humanism There were, and are, folks who call themselves religious humanists, after all, and we were interested in promoting an uncompromisingly nonreligious worldview. | | | There were seventeen other secular humanist groups around the country at that time. | | | Wisne's article chided the editors of the Catholic Encyclopedia for calling Thomas Paine's 1795 book The Age of Reason a work of "pedestrian scriptural criticism." Pedestrian or not, Paine's criticisms of the Bible in his book were sensible and devastating. |
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http://www.wash.org/bb_7_1.html
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| Â | Secular Humanists of the South Carolina Midlands - SecHumSCM |
| | The Secular Humanists of the South Carolina Midlands is a local affiliate of the Council for Secular Humanism ( CSH), which is North America's leading organization for non-religious people. | | | Operating as a not-for-profit educational association, the Council supports a wide range of activities to enrich the lives of people who find knowledge, understanding, meaning, and value in life by neither looking to the supernatural nor relying on faith. | | | As a founding member of the South Carolina Secular Humanist Alliance ( SCSHA), the group also cosponsors statewide conferences with local humanist and atheist organizations throughout South Carolina. |
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http://www.newbanner.com/SecHumSCM/
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| Â | The Impact of Scientism on Competing Faiths |
| | One of the most popular choices is Scientism (also known as “Scientolatry” and “Secular Humanism”), which is the worship of the previous generation’s scientific worldview, and the acceptance of any statement made by an elderly man wearing a white labcoat. | | | People who are devout followers of Scientism share a number of quaint dogmas, the most important of which is the one that they don’t have any. | | | The philosophical term for this type of logic is “throwing out the baby with the bathwater.” The usual result is a conversion to atheism, agnosticism, Marxism, or some other non-theistic (but still dualistic) faith. |
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http://www.neopagan.net/Scientism.html
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| Â | New Jersey Humanist Network |
| | The New Jersey Humanist Network is a vibrant and growing community of secular humanists. | | | NJHN is affiliated with the Council for Secular Humanism and the American Humanist Association; and supports the efforts of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Americans United for Separation of Church and State. | | | We believe in an open and pluralistic society and that democracy is the best guarantee of protecting human rights from authoritarian elites and repressive majorities. |
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http://www.njhn.org/
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| Â | Arizona Secular Humanists Home Page |
| | The new web page for Arizona Secular Humanists is at | | | Greetings to Freethinkers, Atheists, Agnostics as well as those who are just beginning to question religion. | | | Arizona Secular Humanists sponser a number of Atheist and Libertarian List Servers and News Letters. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Cathedral/8650
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| Â | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Taking back 'values' |
| | There are a whole lot who put our faith, secular and sacred, in the most religiously diverse country in the world. | | | The blue candidates will never convert people who believe that homosexuality is a sin, that the fertilized egg is a human being, or that evolution is a scam taught by secular humanists. | | | There are a whole lot who believe that giving tax cuts to the rich and a deficit to the grandkids is a matter of values. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/11/07/taking_back_values
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| Â | PANTHEISM: the World Pantheist Movement |
| | We feel a profound wonder and awe for these, similar to the reverence that believers in more conventional gods feel towards their deity, but without grovelling worship or belief that Nature has a mind or personality that we can influence through prayer or ritual. | | | In the WPM we revere and care for nature, we accept this life as our only life, and this earth as our only paradise, if we look after it. | | | Our ethics are humanistic and green, our metaphysics naturalist and scientific, but to these we add the emotional and aesthetic dimensions which humans need to joyfully embrace their place in the universe and to motivate their concern for nature and human welfare. |
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http://www.pantheism.net
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| Â | WASH: Frederick Chapter (FRESH) |
| | This will include thoughts on why organizations like WASH are important as the country moves toward a reactionary position in religious matters. | | | Copyright © 2004 Washington Area Secular Humanists, Inc. | | | FRESH is the Frederick Chapter of the Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH). |
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http://fresh.wash.org/
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| Â | Adherents.com: By Location |
| | Templars who had not perished by fire or in jail were allowed to join another order or to revert to the secular state... | | | table with 3 columns: "Area "; "Adherents "; "Population Percentage "; "Secular Humanists are sometimes hard to classify, and perhaps even more difficult to obtain demographic data about. | | | But the Templars' reputation was irretrievably damaged, and he dissolved the Order, stipulating that its funds be transferred to the Hospitallers, a rival crusading order. |
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http://www.adherents.com/adhloc/Wh_97.html
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| Â | Welcome to the Center for Inquiry-West |
| | At least a million people who believe in using science, reason, and human understanding to make sense of the world? | | | The Center is also the international headquarters for Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS), also known a Save Our Selves, a popular recovery program that provides a nonreligious alternative to twelve-step programs for alcoholics and others with substance dependencies. | | | The Center for Inquiry-West is the West Coast headquarters of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP -- publisher of Skeptical Inquirer magazine) and the Council for Secular Humanism (publisher of Free Inquiry magazine). |
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http://www.cfiwest.org/
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| Â | Secular Humanists of Cornell |
| | Stop by for some lively discussion and see what we're all about. | | | Along with planning upcoming events, we have an open discussion on topics ranging from religion in politics and civil liberties to free will and the ethics of secular humanism. | | | The organization is dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of freethought, skepticism, secularism, atheism, and humanism. |
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http://www.rso.cornell.edu/shoc
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| Â | American Humanist Association: Welcome! |
| | Humanists Hopeful Supreme Court Will Keep Public Places Free of Religious Indoctrination (10/12/04) | | | We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community." | | | "We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. |
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http://www.americanhumanist.org
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| Â | Biblical Errancy |
| | Can secular humanists carry on a dialogue with religionists? | | | Letters on: Translation Errors, Are Contras Conclusive?, Arguments Over Biblical History, Translation Debate, Are Bats Birds?, Was Resurrection Unique? |
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http://members.aol.com/ckbloomfld/
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| Â | .: www.HumanistsNPS.com :. |
| | and An Affiliate of the Alliance of Secular Humanist Societies | | | Our Founding Fathers must have had a rather good reason to have intentionally omitted such a reference from our most important document. | | | [ We support the Secular Pledge of Allegience ] |
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http://www.humanistsnps.com/
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| Â | International Humanist and Ethical Union - IHEU News |
| | Previous laureates include Rwanda’s Pro-femmes Twese Hamwe association of 32 women’s groups (1996), Egyptian Pope Chenouda III, head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church (2000), and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (2002). | | | Only organisations in the third world are eligible to apply. | | | Compare notes, interact and exchange ideas with Humanist and Human Rights activists and leaders and opinion makers from around the world. |
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http://www.iheu.org/
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| Â | Phyllis Schlafly: Secular humanists rock foundations of Christian nation |
| | Phyllis Schlafly: Secular humanists rock foundations of Christian nation | | | They got a court order to remove the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building and another court order to suspend Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore who put it there. | | | It's not only perfectly constitutional, it's Congress's constitutional duty to stop the out-of-control federal courts. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/printps20030901.shtml
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| Â | -- Beliefnet.com |
| | Other contemporary views include working for equality for homosexuals, gender equality, a secular approach to divorce and remarriage, working to end poverty, promoting peace and nonviolence, and environmental protection. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8040_1.html
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| Â | BookTalk.org - freethinker links |
| | Below you'll find an interesting array of links to web sites that should be appealing to atheists, agnostics, Humanists, freethinkers, and science lovers. | | | We expect a reciprocal link too, and you can link your site to BookTalk.org by using the image found on our SUPPORT page. | | | If you would like to have your site added to our collection please send an email to |
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http://www.booktalk.org/links.php
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| Â | WASH - Maryland-DC Chapter |
| | In April, Fred Edwords, editor of both The Humanist and Free Mind, the two major monthly publications of the American Humanist Association, will be our speaker. | | | In February, American Atheists (AA) president Ellen Johnson will address us, reviewing the plans of that organization to increase the effectiveness of non-religious Americans in the political process in this country. | | | Our winter/spring MDC calendar is also scheduled to feature one or two prominent speakers on Maryland wildlife ecology. |
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http://mdc.wash.org/
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