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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

Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park, August 2022

NJHN Zoom dinner 1/18/22

NJHN Zoom Summer Funday 8/22/21

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
by Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“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
“Humanism is a philosophy that is primarily focused on how we as individuals can be good human beings. We seek to be ethical, moral and compassionate people in all that we do. However, we also understand that good moral reasoning requires us to think clearly and rationally about the problems we face. So Humanists are as much concerned with how we think, as we are concerned with what we think about. To that end we practice the related skills of freethought, critical thinking and logic.”
by Jennifer Hancock
Jen Hancock's Handy Humanism Handbook