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Book Club / Events

NJHN Book Club selections chosen for September-December 2023

  Sep 28: Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America by Katie Worth (2021, 184 pgs. paperback, 4 hrs, 51 mins)  Oct 26: The Good-Enough Life by Avram Alpert (2022, 336 pgs. hardcover, …

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Protected: Choose NJHN Book Club selections for September-December 2023

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Membership / NJHN Community

NJHN Community Cares Program

We have launched a new program for our members called NJHN Community Cares. For many of us who are not religious and seeking real connection, we often face a choice …

Events

NJHN Summer Art & Hobby Show on July 23

  Please join us at our Summer Art & Hobby Show at the Franklin Twp Public Library in Somerset on Sunday, July 23, at 1:30 PM. Find all the details …

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NJHN Summer Picnic at Duke Island Park on Aug. 27, 12-5 PM

We invite you to join us for our Summer Picnic on Sunday, August 27, 12-5 PM, at the Oak Grove Pavilion, Duke Island Park, Old York Road, Bridgewater (the same …

Action / News / Political

ACTION ALERT: Stand up for LGBTQ+ Students – Help Ban the Book Bans!

The BAD NEWS: Books are being banned in several NJ school districts and protections for LGBTQ+ students are being rolled back by some school boards where right-wing activists have been …

Action / Membership

NJHN 2023-2025 Board of Directors Election & Candidate Statements

Dear NJHN Members, NJHN is conducting our 2023-2025 Board of Directors Election. Each year, NJHN holds an election for our Board of Directors, the governing body that makes programming and …

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7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Jan 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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We meet on the 3rd 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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7:30 pm NJHN Book Club
NJHN Book Club
Jan 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN’s Book Club is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM on Zoom (holidays excluded). For information on our book selections and full details, visit our ...
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7:00 pm NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Com...
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NJHN Exploring Humanism: Ten Commitments (Zoom)
Our Exploring Humanism program will return in February 2025 with a new series. Check our Exploring Humanism page for updates. Join us as we go Exploring Humanism!  
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7:00 pm NJHN Monthly Dinner
NJHN Monthly Dinner
Feb 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
NJHN Monthly Dinner @ Omega Diner & Cafe
We meet on the 3rd 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

  • “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
  • “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
  • “Don’t blow your one and only shot at happiness by selling your birthright and squandering your meaning and purpose on someone else’s undeserved glory. Live your own life. If you are reasonable and kind, you will discover that meaning is not handed to you from on high; it emerges naturally from your own life-driven purpose.”
    by Dan Barker, co-President of Freedom From Religion Foundation; co-Founder of The Clergy Project
    Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning
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