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Category: Exploring Humanism

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Exploring Humanism online discussions restart on October 6

After our summer break, we’re restarting our Exploring Humanism online discussions starting on October 6. We’ve been working through the AHA’s Ten Commitments and we’re picking up with the Humanist …

Events / Exploring Humanism

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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Freethought Quotes

  • “The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.”
    by Paul Kurtz
  • “If your god doesn’t like birth control, don’t take it. If your god thinks marrying a person of the same sex is sinful, don’t marry someone of the same sex. If your religion demands private religious education for your children, you and your church pay for it. Religious freedom does not mean burdening others with your religion; it means freely burdening yourself.”
    by Andrew L. Seidel
    American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom
  • “In spite of some alarmists, it is hardly likely that our species will completely exterminate itself. And so long as man continues to exist, we may be pretty sure that, whatever he may suffer for a time, and whatever brightness may be eclipsed, he will emerge sooner or later, perhaps strengthened and reinvigorated by a period of mental sleep. The universe is vast and men are but tiny specks on an insignificant planet. But the more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved.”
    by Bertrand Russell
    If We are to Survive this Dark Time, The New York Times Magazine (3 September 1950)
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