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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

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NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom) 7:00 pm

NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom)
Nov 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm

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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 ...

“I found the humanist outlook to be more realistic than religion. Humanism related to me directly, to human beings that I saw and interacted with. That was unlike religion that focused mainly on gods and spirits, which I could not see or really interact with. I also noticed that religion encouraged people to be dishonest, to claim to be seeing what they are not seeing or to be in communication with somebody when they are in communication with nobody. Religion encouraged fakery. So, some of these issues led to me embracing humanism.”
by Leo Igwe, Founder, Nigerian Humanist Movement
https://medium.com/humanist-voices/an-interview-with-leo-igwe-founder-nigerian-humanist-movement-d06300a2ea7e
“The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and girls, beheadings, stoning to death, floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most brutal and visible aspects of women's rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East.”
by Maryam Namazie, British-Iranian secularist, human rights activist, writer, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain
“How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.”
by Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man