Humanist 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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