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NJHN Book Club selections for September-December 2025

NJHN’s Book Club has chosen the next four books we’ll read and discuss for September-December 2025: Sep 25: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson ((2017, 223 pages, …

Events / NJHN Community

NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park on Aug. 24, 12-5 PM

  We invite you to join us for our Summer Picnic on Sunday, August 24, 12-5 PM, at the Oak Grove Pavilion, Duke Island Park, Old York Road, Bridgewater. This …

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NJHN Summer Art & Hobby Show on July 27

We invite you to join us at our Summer Art & Hobby Show to share your artistic talents and creative hobbies for all to enjoy! This could be your music, …

Events / Membership / NJHN Community / Program

NJHN June 22 Program with Kate Cohen: Why America Needs Atheists Now More Than Ever

  This month we’re hosting a talk by journalist and author Kate Cohen titled Why America Needs Atheists Now More Than Ever. Kate will speak about her decision to stop …

Events / NJHN Community

CANCELED: NJHN Tabling at Jersey Pride Festival on June 1

Unfortunately, due to a number of our volunteers dealing with illness this weekend, NJHN will not have a table at the Jersey Pride Festival in Asbury Park on Sunday. We’re …

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NJHN 2025-2027 Board of Directors Election & Candidate Statements

Dear NJHN Members, Each year, NJHN holds an election for our Board of Directors, the governing body that makes programming and financial decisions with our membership contributions. Board members are …

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NJHN May 18 Program – Seth Andrews: Dissent Is Our Duty (video of presentation via Zoom only)

For our program this month we’ll watch a video of a presentation given by Seth Andrews at the Western Canadian Reason 2025 Conference on May 3, 2025. His talk is titled Dissent Is Our …

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NJHN HumanLight Celebration 12/17/23
Members of NJHN and Red Bank Humanists tabling at Jersey Pride in Asbury Park, June 2023
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Freethought Quotes

  • “When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don\'t think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
    by Ann Druyan
  • “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
  • “There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.”
    by Polly Toynbee
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