About iHumanism

By Doug Berger -- iHumanism founder and Webmaster

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.

So, I present iHumanism.