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Our monthly events include hybrid (in-person and Zoom) program meetings at the Franklin Township Public Library in Somerset, an online Book Club, an online Exploring Humanism course, a Virtual Diner on Zoom, and a Monthly Dinner at Omega Diner in North Brunswick,

Visit our events calendar for all upcoming events.

Upcoming Events

Dec
1
Sun
7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
Dec 1 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom)
For our new Exploring Humanism program, starting on October 1, 2023, we’ll be exploring the Ten Commitments, a set of Humanist values and principles that promote a democratic world in which ...
Dec
15
Sun
11:00 am NJHN 2024 HumanLight Celebration
NJHN 2024 HumanLight Celebration
Dec 15 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
NJHN 2024 HumanLight Celebration @ Stoney Brook Grille
    We invite you to join us for our 24th HumanLight and 30th Anniversary Celebration of our community’s positive Humanist values of reason, compassion and hope, and our secular ...
Dec
26
Thu
7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Dec 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN’s Book Club is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM on Zoom (holidays excluded). For information on our book selections and full details, visit our ...
Jan
5
Sun
7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
Jan 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom)
For our new Exploring Humanism program, starting on October 1, 2023, we’ll be exploring the Ten Commitments, a set of Humanist values and principles that promote a democratic world in which ...
Jan
21
Tue
7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Monthly Dinner @ Omega Diner & Cafe
We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at the Omega Diner in North Brunswick for dinner with fellow humanists and atheists. It’s pretty informal and newcomers are always ...
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Recent Posts

  • NJHN 2024 HumanLight & 30th Anniversary Celebration on December 15
  • NJHN November Program: Moving Forward Together on 11/17
  • NJHN 2024 Holiday Card Exchange
  • Donations Needed for NJHN HumanLight 2024 Silent Auction
  • NJHN October 27 Program [Hybrid]: Nick Fish, American Atheists: Rising to the Moment
  • Exploring Humanism online discussions restart on October 6
  • Author Kate Cohen will join our Book Club discussion on Aug. 22
  • Summer Picnic is CANCELED!

Recent Photos

NJHN HumanLight Celebration 12/17/23
Members of NJHN and Red Bank Humanists tabling at Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, June 2023
Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park, August 2022
NJHN Zoom dinner 1/18/22
NJHN Zoom Summer Funday 8/22/21

Freethought Quotes

  • “In a dozen Muslim-majority countries, ex-Muslims are condemned to the death penalty. In the West, our existence is not a crime, but we still face isolation, threats, and abuse by our own families and former faith community. Unsurprisingly, many former Muslims choose to hide their lack of belief. But the first step to gain acceptance is coming out openly, without shame or fear.”
    by Muhammad Syed, Co-Founder and President of Ex-Muslims of North America
    https://exmuslims.org/press-release/ex-muslims-of-north-america-debuts-billboards-in-atlanta-chicago-houston
  • “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
    by Isaac Asimov
  • “Everyone is born with an inbuilt moral purpose. It springs from mankind's evolution as a social being, acting collaboratively, with altruism and good of the community hard-wired. It needs no orders from elsewhere to tell people to be good – they know it already as a part of the human condition. Conflicting selfish impulses tug in the other direction, a life-long tussle that the religious would call 'God and Satan'. But placing moral laws and rules in the hands of a book written by some external creator, judge, father, law-maker, infantilises us and makes us less responsible for creating a society around us that benefits everyone. Goodness is a social value, the effect you have on all around you and the wider society, not a secret or personal matter for the sinner to be privately weighed on the scales by a god after death. Humanism is not a mere absence of religion but a positive value that puts people and their societies at the heart of life.”
    by Polly Toynbee
    https://humanists.uk/about/our-people/patrons/polly-toynbee/
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