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NJHN March 23 Program [Hybrid]: Dr. Julien Musolino on The Problem of Free Will: Seeing the Forest for the Trees

  Our speaker this month is Dr. Julien Musolino, whose talk is titled The Problem of Free Will: Seeing the Forest for the Trees. The problem of free will has vexed philosophers …

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NJHN February 23 Program [Hybrid]: Prof. Robin May Video on Evolution Tomorrow and Beyond

  This month we’ll watch a video of a presentation by Professor Robin May on the topic of Evolution Tomorrow and Beyond that he gave at Gresham College (London) on May 8, 2024.  …

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NJHN announces 2025 Secular Student Scholarship fundraising campaign

  We’re excited to announce our 2025 Secular Student Scholarship fundraising campaign! In cooperation with the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), NJHN will sponsor a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to a …

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NJHN Joins Other Organizations in Signing Statement Affirming Commitment to Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights

On January 17, the NJHN Board of Directors voted to sign on to the following Statement Affirming Commitment to Protecting LGBTQ+ Rights which was also signed by 16 national organizations …

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NJHN January 26 Program [Hybrid]: Yuval Noah Harari video on AI and the Future of Humanity

This month we’ll watch a video of a keynote address given by Yuval Noah Harari on the topic of AI and the Future of Humanity that he presented at the Frontiers Forum in Montreaux, …

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NJHN 30th Anniversary – Through the Years video

New Jersey Humanist Network was founded in 1994 and we’ve been celebrating our 30th Anniversary throughout 2024. This video marks some of the many gatherings and activities of our vibrant …

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NJHN President’s 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Year of Turmoil and Resolve

  This is NJHN President Lisa Ridge’s talk given at our 2024 HumanLight and 30th Anniversary Celebration on December 15, 2024 Let me start with a spoiler alert: There will …

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                  Our speaker this month is Avram Alpert, author of The Good-Enough Life. In 2022, Avram Alpert released his book, The Good-Enough Life, in which ...
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We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Omega Diner in North Brunswick for dinner with fellow humanists and atheists. It’s pretty informal and newcomers are always ...
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Freethought Quotes

  • “The freedom of religion cannot exist without a government that is free from religion (nor can the freedom of religion exist without the freedom to choose no religion at all). True religious freedom depends on a secular government.”
    by Andrew L. Seidel
    The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
  • “Everyone is born with an inbuilt moral purpose. It springs from mankind's evolution as a social being, acting collaboratively, with altruism and good of the community hard-wired. It needs no orders from elsewhere to tell people to be good – they know it already as a part of the human condition. Conflicting selfish impulses tug in the other direction, a life-long tussle that the religious would call 'God and Satan'. But placing moral laws and rules in the hands of a book written by some external creator, judge, father, law-maker, infantilises us and makes us less responsible for creating a society around us that benefits everyone. Goodness is a social value, the effect you have on all around you and the wider society, not a secret or personal matter for the sinner to be privately weighed on the scales by a god after death. Humanism is not a mere absence of religion but a positive value that puts people and their societies at the heart of life.”
    by Polly Toynbee
    https://humanists.uk/about/our-people/patrons/polly-toynbee/
  • “We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.”
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