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NJHN Exploring Humanism returns October 1 with new program (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 …

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NJHN September 17 Program: Games Day at the Library

Bring your games and join us at the library for fun and conversation! Easy and popular board, cards and dice games that can be played at least once or more …

Book Club / Events

NJHN Book Club selections chosen for September-December 2023

  Sep 28: Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America by Katie Worth (2021, 184 pgs. paperback, 4 hrs, 51 mins)  Oct 26: The Good-Enough Life by Avram Alpert (2022, 336 pgs. hardcover, …

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Protected: Choose NJHN Book Club selections for September-December 2023

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NJHN Summer Art & Hobby Show on July 23

  Please join us at our Summer Art & Hobby Show at the Franklin Twp Public Library in Somerset on Sunday, July 23, at 1:30 PM. Find all the details …

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NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park on Aug. 27, 12-5 PM

We invite you to join us for our Summer Picnic on Sunday, August 27, 12-5 PM, at the Oak Grove Pavilion, Duke Island Park, Old York Road, Bridgewater (the same …

Book Club / Events

NJHN Book Club books chosen for May-August 2023

Our Book Club has chosen the 4 books we’ll read and discuss on the 4th Thursdays at 7:30 PM on Zoom in May, June, July and August. Visit our Book …

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Sep
28
Thu
7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Sep 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Book Club @ Zoom
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 ...
Oct
1
Sun
7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
Oct 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 ...
Oct
17
Tue
7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Oct 17 @ 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 ...
Oct
26
Thu
7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Oct 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Book Club @ Zoom
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 ...
Nov
5
Sun
7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
Nov 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 ...
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Freethought Quotes

  • “If the Bible proves that God exists then comic books prove the existence of Superman.”
    by Anonymous
  • “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/
  • “God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought, even the categories of being and non-being. Those are categories of thought. I mean it's as simple as that. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that's the ground of your own being. If it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts. Those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts. And so, they're lies. Those are the atheists.”
    by Joseph Campbell
    Joseph Campbell: A Hero's Journey (2002 documentary)
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