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About iHumanism

I came up with the idea for iHumanism in October 1999.

I have met several Humanists on line who complained they had no local Humanist group to join or didn’t know anyone in their area. I thought a Humanist Community on the Internet was perfect for them.

I also met some who were turned off, for whatever reason, by the large national Humanist organizations here in the United States. They didn’t want to join one group because it appeared they had a “liberal agenda” and some didn’t like the other group because the director acted like a dictator. As happens in many large organizations, the focus of the group is lost in agendas and power grabbing. It wasn’t exactly the Humanist way to operate a group.

In general, I wanted to create a group that tried to strip away the infighting and egos and go back to the core principles of Modern Humanism. Corliss Lamont, in his book “Philosophy of Humanism” described these core principles in the “10 Points of Humanism“.

I also wanted to give those without a local group to join, a place they could find others in their area or ideas for acting on their own.

I also wanted to create a group that represented all Humanists without regard to national boarders. We do have different ideas and perceptions but we are united in the core Humanist philosophy and we should work to spread it around as far as possible.

I feel we have done a lot of talking and not much acting and I would like to see that change as a whole.

As of July 2007, I changed the format of this site to blog based using Wordpress. It will help in adding and maintaining the content. Also with the move to a blog format I plan to comment on the internal politics of Humanist groups and the movement in general.

I read and hear different things about the groups I am involved in and think it is important for others in or outside the groups to know about them.

– Doug

About Doug - creator and editor of iHumanism

Doug Berger is a Secular Humanist living in Columbus, Ohio. He has been an official Humanist for more than 10 years. He is a past president of the Humanist Community of Central Ohio as well as currently the editor of the newsletter - Central Ohio Humanist.

Doug likes to write. He writes short fiction and recently moved into screenplays. He has several blogs he contributes to including Secular Left, Doug’s Views, and the Review Geek.

Because he does these blogs and noodles on the computer, he is very pale and lacks many friends. (Just kidding….)

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