Secular Humanism Is Egalitarian
During my adolescence, I misspent several years as a devout Christian. I attended a church that relied solely on the Bible for answers to all questions but did not adhere to a literal interpretation...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Salvation
Salvation has a religious connotation, but I choose that word deliberately and with irony to describe what secular humanism has the capacity to do. Secular humanism has the capacity to not only “save”...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Truth
This statement may seem too simplistic, especially to humanist philosophers, but in contrast to the fraud and deception of religion as taught from pulpits worldwide, secular humanism is truth. My...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is…GE!
Secular humanism is GE. True, General Electric hasn’t come up with one super-appliance that does everything, but combine its products and you’ll get an idea of what I mean. Secular humanism reduces...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Evangelistic
Secular humanism is one of the major “evangelistic” worldviews vying for the hearts and minds of the world. It is a religious worldview (like all other worldviews) because it has a theology-atheism....
View ArticleIntroduction
In the October/November 2010 issue, I offered a one-word definition of secular humanism-I suggested that it was emancipatory-and I challenged readers to offer their own one-word completion of the...
View ArticleOn God and Our Ultimate Purpose
When believers find out I’m an atheist, they occasionally ask me how I keep going if I don’t think my life has any ultimate significance. I tell them I’m not alone. I don’t think their lives have any...
View ArticleThe Unmaking of Wisdom
How we compromise reason’s capacity to transform the human condition – Part 2: Recovering Reason Part 1 of this two-part essay identified a common assumption about reason and then traced its origin...
View ArticleWhen Atheists Meet Jesus
I came out of a blistering rainstorm and strode into the First Nazarene Church for the Upward Bound basketball program coaches’ orientation. After scribbling “Bado” on the sign-in sheet, I scooted...
View ArticleThe Labyrinth: God, Darwin, and the meaning of life
The simpler the society, the cruder the problems: we can imagine Neanderthals crouching in fear—of the tiger, of the dark, of thunder—but we do not suppose they had the leisure for exquisite neuro...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Sensual
I used to call myself the world’s worst atheist. It seemed that whenever I would get comfortable with disbelief, the rationale for believing would begin stalking me again. “Life is pointless,”...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Hope
Secular humanism is hope for the realization that within us-not in any of the many gods we’ve believed in throughout history-lies the key to meaning, purpose, better lives, and a better world. Within...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Defining
Secular defines my narrative as based on my own reasoning, experience, and knowledge of science rather than someone else’s faith. Humanism defines the basis for my own beliefs. My narrative goes like...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Truth
This statement may seem too simplistic, especially to humanist philosophers, but in contrast to the fraud and deception of religion as taught from pulpits worldwide, secular humanism is truth. My...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is…GE!
Secular humanism is GE. True, General Electric hasn’t come up with one super-appliance that does everything, but combine its products and you’ll get an idea of what I mean. Secular humanism reduces...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Evangelistic
Secular humanism is one of the major “evangelistic” worldviews vying for the hearts and minds of the world. It is a religious worldview (like all other worldviews) because it has a theology-atheism....
View ArticleSecular Humanism is Atheism
Toward the end of a recent phone visit with my youngest brother, I asked him (totally out of context and with this essay in mind), “What is a secular humanist?” Now, he is an articulate and...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Sensual
I used to call myself the world’s worst atheist. It seemed that whenever I would get comfortable with disbelief, the rationale for believing would begin stalking me again. “Life is pointless,”...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Hope
Secular humanism is hope for the realization that within us-not in any of the many gods we’ve believed in throughout history-lies the key to meaning, purpose, better lives, and a better world. Within...
View ArticleSecular Humanism Is Defining
Secular defines my narrative as based on my own reasoning, experience, and knowledge of science rather than someone else’s faith. Humanism defines the basis for my own beliefs. My narrative goes like...
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