Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard University, is building a God-free model of community that he hopes helps humanists increase in numbers and influence.
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Humanists and Atheists
Peter Bishop has the key. Al Dow quotes him as saying “Humanists talk about God less.” [Humanist Community Newsletter, March 2009].
Paul Beattie’s “The Prospect for Humanism” discusses the way the word “God” is employed. He observes “The Humanist does not use the word ‘God’ in describing his religious perspective.”
“Occasionally,” he says, “a Humanist [...]
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Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain of Harvard University. The following is an excerpt from his recent post:
President Obama described his mother as a “lonely witness for secular Humanism,” but to gain greater inclusion we must never again allow women and men like her to be so lonely. We must not only tear down [...]
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President Barack Obama in his history-making Inaugural Address today sounded the clarion call for a more inclusive and progressive America. The President’s speech outlined a largely humanistic agenda, promising to “restore science to its rightful place,” as we collectively face the massive challenges facing us as a country in the twenty-first century. Significantly, in affirming [...]
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By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 10:05 AM on 07th January 2009. The Daily Mail (London)
A controversial advertising campaign featuring the slogan ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life’ was launched today on Britain’s trains and buses.
But despite its gloomy undertones the advert creators said it had a positive message which [...]
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(Washington, D.C., January 7, 2009) The American Humanist Association is pleased to announce the recent election of David Niose, an attorney from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, as president. In addition to Niose’s new role, he will also serve as a member on the AHA board of [...]
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January 7, 2009
London Journal
By SARAH LYALL
LONDON — The advertisement on the bus was fairly mild, just a passage from the Bible and the address of a Christian Web site. But when Ariane Sherine, a comedy writer, looked on the Web site in June, she was startled to learn that she and her nonbelieving friends were [...]
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CFI Founder and Chairman Paul Kurtz has been published in today’s “On Faith,” a special Web feature of the Washington Post—one of most popular features on the nation’s second most popular newspaper Web site.
Kurtz’s piece,”Is Belief in God Essential for Moral Virtue?,” is an affirmation of secular humanist ethics.
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The Humanist Society started the webzine Happy Human to replace their print newsletter, Humanist Living. This quarterly online publication, full of contributions by Humanist clergy, community leaders, and individuals, is a resource to help people more fully live the Humanist lifestance.
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This past Sunday the Democrats unveiled their 2008 convention with an “Interfaith Gathering of Clergy.” I am a Humanist: a proud, active member of the community of millions of Americans who believe in being good without God. So you might think I regarded this as some pernicious “intrusion of religion into the [...]
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