Reading some of the articles on the blog, you can sense some issues I have with a like minded group. Although Unitarian Universalists are in general supporters of Humanism, there have been problems on some issues. One example came up over the reaction to the invite of Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inaugural of President Obama in January. The other recent issue was in an article about the life sentence given to the killer who shot up a UU church in Knoxville in 2008.
It’s Humanist Time in the City….
December 24th, 2008 by DougA friend of mine sent out an e-mail about attending a recent HumanLight celebration in the Philadelphia area. It was hosted by another friend who had been a member of my local Humanist group here in Ohio. HumanLight is a positive secular humanist take on the winter holiday season so full of theistic religious symbolism. My friend Martha Knox was interviewed for Tuesday the 23rd on Morning Edition on NPR about the celebration.
An Update and other changes
September 7th, 2008 by adminBeen a long time since my last post. I’m still a Secular Humanist and very concerned about the efforts of the religious right to impose their beliefs on all of us. What prompted this post is to let you know about a change in the web host of this blog and and something new I [...]
Humanism should not be “religious”
September 19th, 2007 by DougAn old argument came up the other day with another Humanist. It was related to some of my earlier posts here. It was the debate between religious and secular humanists. The debate was about Humanism and religion. I’m not religious. I have no use for religion of any form, but I don’t have anything against [...]
Atheism a trap for Humanism – Update
August 23rd, 2007 by DougHumanist Network News published my letter to the editor based on reaction to the essay published last week titled “Humanists and the Trap of Atheism” Here is my letter. Which is the text of my post on this issue. At the end of the letters responding to that essay was this editor’s note: Editor’s Note: [...]
Just a Humanist
August 22nd, 2007 by DougBy Jennifer Hancock I am a Humanist. I am proud of that fact and I do not hesitate to label myself as a Humanist. Over the past few years I have met a lot of people who share my values as a Humanist, but who had just never encountered anyone who is willing to talk [...]
Atheism a trap for Humanism?
August 16th, 2007 by DougVir Narain, chairman of the Indian Humanist Union and editor of its quarterly journal, The Humanist Outlook, had a column published this week in the e-mail newsletter HumanistNetworkNews.org which is published by the Institute for Humanist Studies. The title made me whince. It was called Humanists and the Trap of Atheism. I knew from the [...]
Vague Theism Threatens Humanism
August 2nd, 2007 by DougTen years ago, when I finally settled on Humanism as my world outlook (that I finally found a label for the view I had) and I joined my local Humanist group, The Humanist Community of Central Ohio, and I got really involved by joining the Board of Trustees of the group and editing the member’s [...]
Dawn of a new era
July 24th, 2007 by DougI have been an official Humanist for more than 10 years. To clarify I am a proud Secular Humanist. Secular because I am an Atheist and have no need for any religious type of traditions like going to “church”, singing hymns, or believing that God Talk can be a poetic metaphor. I’m past all of [...]
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