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Happy Hanukkah!

For all those celebrating Hanukkah, we hope your days and nights are filled with warmth, light, and time spent with friends and family.

The Society for Humanistic Judaism has information about Hanukkah and offers Humanistic Ideals for Hanukkah Candle Lighting and a contemporary reading of the symbolism behind each candle, The Eight Lights of Hanukkah.

Published 11/28/21

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Freethought Quotes

  • “I am convinced of the need to create more spaces for exvies and exiles from other forms of religious fundamentalism (and yes, the vast majority of white American evangelical Protestants do qualify as fundamentalist, whether they accept the label or not). Reclaiming and sharing our ex-evangelical stories serves both to foster healing for exvies and to raise awareness among the broader American public of the threat to democracy and human rights posed by theocratic ideology, and of the real human harm caused by evangelical ideology and practice.”
    by Chrissy Stroop, co-editor of Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church
    https://cstroop.com/about/
  • “The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
    by Bertrand Russell
    The Conquest of Happiness, 1930
  • “Religion is based . . . mainly on fear . . . fear of the mysterious, fear
    of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it
    is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. . . . My own
    view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of
    fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.”
    by H.L. Mencken
    Holy Horrors
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