41. What Is Humanism? Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York What is humanism? The Corliss Lamont Chapter of the American Humanist Association. What is humanism? http://www.corliss-lamont.org/hsmny/whatishumanism.htm

Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York The Corliss Lamont Chapter of the American Humanist Association What is Humanism? Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science and democracy. There are ten central propositions in the Humanist philosophy. First, Humanism believes in a naturalistic metaphysics of attitude toward the universe that considers all forms of the supernatural as myth; and that regards Nature as the totality of being and as a constantly changing system of matter and energy which exists independently of any mind or consciousness. Second, Humanism, drawing especially upon the laws and facts of science, believes that humans are an evolutionary product of the Nature of which we are a part; that our minds are indivisibly conjoined with the functioning of our brains; and that as an inseparable unity of body and personality we can have no conscious survival after death. Third, Humanism, having its ultimate faith in human beings, believes that we possess the power or potentiality of solving our own problems, through reliance primarily upon reason and scientific method applied with courage and vision.

42. Affirming Humanism What is humanism and what is it all about? How does it compare to religion? Search. Agnosticism / Atheism Affirming humanism. Dateline September 23, 1998 http://atheism.about.com/library/weekly/aa092398.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') Tac(zh+'te.'+uy+'/blank.gif',zJs) About Agnosticism / Atheism Home Essentials ... Evolution vs. Creationism zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Does God Exist? Ethics and Morality Islam and Muslims Religious Right ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Agnosticism / Atheism newsletter. Search Agnosticism / Atheism Affirming Humanism Dateline: September 23, 1998 Considering the level and intensity of attacks levied against humanism by religious conservatives in the media, from the pulpit, and on the internet, one might be lead to think that there is something to all of their allegations. But is there? In an intermittent series of essays, I intend to address a variety of those allegations and examine whether or not they enjoy a solid foundation. One common misconception which is often seen being bandied about is the idea that humanism embodies some sort of dogmatic creed . Most humanists will find this laughable, but they should not shrug it off too quickly. Enough people actually believe it that we really need to deal with it.

43. Cambridge University Humanism Society Includes background information, details of upcoming and past events, a list of books available for loan, and the society constitution. http://www.srcf.ucam.org/hmmsoc/

Cambridge University Humanism Society Introduction Events Library Recent ... Further Info Manifesto HmmSoc seeks to promote understanding and interest in secular philosophy: our aims include providing a forum for non-religious individuals to meet and discuss issues of interest to them and to raise awareness of non-religious views, especially those concerning Cambridge University and the student body. Activities Founded in 2000, HmmSoc follows a long history of non-theistic thought in Cambridge University and is run by elected students operating as a committee. HmmSoc holds several types of events to cater for different interests, ranging from formal talks and debates by invited speakers to social events such as formal halls, garden parties and pub meets. Membership Please email humanism@cusu.cam.ac.uk to join the society or subscribe to our interested list. Humanism - An Introduction (abridged from The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Humanism can be defined as the tendency to emphasize human beings and their status, importance, powers, achievements, interests, or authority. Humanism has many different connotations, which depend largely on what it is being contrasted with. As well as denoting particular claims about humanity it can also denote the tendency to study humanity at all. Early Greek thought began by studying the cosmos as a whole and particular phenomena in it, such as the weather, earthquakes, etc., and then turned to questions of logic and metaphysics, but the so-called humanist movement arose in the fifth century BC when the Sophists and Socrates 'called philosophy down from heaven to earth', as Cicero later put it, by introducing social, political, and moral questions.

44. 1. Faith In Humanism himself. humanism, the modern expression of man s belief in man, has its roots in the Renaissance. out. . humanism is not realistic. http://www.gospelcom.net/rbc/ds/q0603/point1.html

We have witnessed a revival of man's belief in man during the past quarter of a century. The 1960s were years of great accomplishments. Diseases like polio were conquered, and we landed a man on the moon. John F. Kennedy, expressing the spirit of the age, said confidently, "All man's problems were created by man and can be solved by man." Humanism rests on the conviction that man's intellect as he uses the scientific method can bring solutions to all his problems and answers to all his questions. Man needs no outside help. He has in himself all the resources he needs. Moreover, humanism says that things will continue to get better and better. Some kind of cosmic force which lies behind evolution guarantees continued progress. Humanistic futurists focus on the year 2000 as the year we will enter a millennial-like state. Their hope in a worldwide paradise is based on a number of factors: Interplanetary travel Ocean exploration Space stations Medical advances Genetic engineering Futuristic housing Global communication Solar energy B. F. Skinner expressed the hope of the futurists when he wrote, "We have not yet seen what man can make of man."

45. About Humanism, Humanists, And Humanist Philosophy In this century, humanism has come to refer to a philosophy that rejects traditional religious dogmas and usually theism itself. http://atheism.about.com/cs/abouthumanism/

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46. Eclectic Church Home Promoting a theology that advocates humanism as a universal concept of Divine inspiration. Combining many religious sources. http://www.eclecticchurch.org/index.htm

WELCOME to the Religious Home Page Seeking God from a different perspective Eclectic Church SITE CONTENT click above for a complete indexing of this site A Letter to Louise (by Bruce W Lowe) What does the Bible really say about homosexuality? Other Recent additions of interests Protecting Marriage - From What? "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Historical Review of Pennsylvania “I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. (James Madison, Address to Virginia Convention, 1788 ) Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. (Thomas Jefferson) ABOUT US IN BRIEF A Message For Our Visitors The Eclectic Church is a religious movement that is developing a theology which is harmonious with the modern world. In the true sense of the word, the concept of a universal (CATHOLIC) Religious ideology is realized. We seek the Inspiration of God from a wide variety of sources and many religious ideals, combining them to create a relevant religious message for our times. Please note: we do not solicit nor accept monetary donations of any sort.

47. Purdue PH Search For Willey computer technology. computer technology. veterinary medical teaching hospital a service of the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network (Kyler B Laird). http://purcell.ecn.purdue.edu/~willey/humanism/humanism.html

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48. The Religion Of "Christian" Humanism Today, pure Apostolic Christianity has been mixed with ancient humanism and ancient humanism has been Christianized to form a syncretized religion of http://www.truthinhistory.org/humanism.htm

Song Being Played "Open My Eyes, That I May See" by Charles A. Jennings I In order to find the real answer to all our problems, it is imperative that we recognize and accept the supreme authority of the Almighty and the immutability of His law, which He established. Our arrogant rejection and blatant disobedience of the Law-Word of God, which he gave to the Israelites in 1453 BC after their exodus from Egypt, is our basic sin, resulting in severe consequences. Monotheism = The doctrine or belief that there is only one God. - Webster's Dictionary To whom then will you liken me, or shall I be equal? Saith the Holy One. I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Is there a God beside me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any. - The Lord God Almighty (Isaiah 40:24; 44:6, 8 I n the Biblical account of Exodus 19 is recorded the marriage vows of the Children of Israel, in accepting and agreeing to the terms of the covenant that God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai. This covenant between the Almighty God and His people Israel contains commandments that are absolute and immutable in nature. The first of these commandments is the basic foundational structure for all subsequent laws, statutes and judgments whereby the nation and people of Israel are to be governed, both in their personal and their national life. In Exodus 20 Moses begins his record of the giving of this law by saying

49. The Ethical Manifold Current articles by leaders in the Ethical Culture movement that explore the philosophy and ideals of Ethical Culture and Ethical humanism. http://www.ethicalmanifold.net/

The Ethical Manifold Commentary by Ethical Culture Leaders on issues of the day and on practical ethical living. The Ethical Manifold is a collection of sites by Ethical Culture Leaders with writings on current issues and practical living. You may also find book reviews, short inspirational pieces, writings suitable for public and private ceremonies, organizational resources and items from Ethical Culture history. In the column on the right, you'll find recent article titles plus pages with past articles listed by topic. You'll also find direct links to other sites in this collection and to related sites about Ethical Culture and Ethical Humanism. Below, you'll find excerpts from recent articles by Leaders posted on sites in this collection, with links to find the full article. You'll also find excerpts and links for some recently posted items from the pages of Ethical Culture history. Following those are announcements about this site Around the Ethical Manifold Families and Community What happens to the national moral climate when our government leaders don’t play fair, but have one standard for the USA’s actions and another for everybody else? What happens in hearts and families when our nation’s world leadership is not... Read more ...

50. Christian Humanism. Clarion Call .. Christian humanism. Christianity humanism mutually exclusive surely? The hallmark of the early church and http://pages.zdnet.com/rwfortune/theclarioncall/id31.html

Clarion Call...... Christian Humanism. Home Name Above All Names. Can We Pray For You? What Do Christians Really Believe? ... Recognition By Others Christianity...Humanism...mutually exclusive surely? The hallmark of the early church and its members was a radical nonconformity to society and its mores. The Apostle Paul in Ephesus (Acts 19) and about 12 believers, in the space of just two years, turned this centre of pagan worship upside down. They caused such a disturbance that their actions led the local trades' people to riot because the numbers of people who were becoming Christians threatened their livelihood. In many parts of the Roman Empire, Christians willingly died for their belief in a Saviour who set captives free and changed lives that were formally enslaved in all manner of destructive and fruitless human pursuits. The Church was a force that fomented change. The followers of Jesus Christ were dangerous people. They upset kingdoms, they battled principalities (both natural and spiritual) they took the good news of the Gospel seriously and set about changing things. I read a statement recently that got me thinking. "The world can do almost anything as well or better than the church. You need not be a Christian to build houses, feed the hungry, or heal the sick. There is only one thing that world cannot do. It cannot offer grace"

51. -- Beliefnet.com Message boards, links, and information dealing with agnosticism, atheism, and humanism. http://beliefnet.com/index/index_10043.asp

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52. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Erasmus & Renaissance Humanism BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 Erasmus Renaissance humanism. 1. The Later Middle Ages. 2. Erasmus humanism Studies. 2. ERASMUS humanism STUDIES. http://camellia.shc.edu/theology/Erasmus.htm

Compiled by Fr. William Harmless, S.J. With special emphasis for books in the collection of Byrne Library, Spring Hill College 1. The Later Middle Ages 1. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium , Oxford (paperback, $12). An entertaining study of the wildest of the fringe (and often heretical) groups that made headlines in the late Middle Ages and the early Reformation. See especially the chapter on the bizarre Anabaptist experiment in Munster. Steven Ozment, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980) paperback, $16. Ozment helps re-join what is too often separated: medieval studies and reformation studies. He offers summaries on a broad range of figures and questions. It is widely acclaimed, but I must confess that I find myself quibbling with some of his judgments and interpretations. Alister E. McGrath, The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1986) paperback, $20.

53. HUUmanists Formerly The Friends of Religious humanism, an affiliate organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Founded as the Fellowship of Religious Humanists to advance humanism within the UnitarianUniversalist denomination and to promote religious humanism in general. http://www.americanhumanist.org/hsfamily/huumanist.html

Home The Humanist Family >>HUUmanists HUUmanists The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Russell Formerly The Friends of Religious Humanism, an affiliate organization of the the Unitarian Universalist Association, the HUUmanists was founded by Edwin H. Wilson, Lester Mondale, and others in 1962 as the "Fellowship of Religious Humanists" to advance humanism within the Unitarian-Universalist denomination and to promote religious humanism in general. Our stated purpose is: “To enhance, promote, practice and enjoy humanism in liberal religion, and to provide a continental organization for those who consider themselves humanists within the UUA. To this end, HUUmanists shall defend and protect freedom of thought in Unitarian Universalism, arrange programs, forums and lectures, encourage humanist writing to give voice to humanistic values, encourage the establishment of local humanist groups, maintain a humanist presence on the internet, and hold discussion groups, seminars, workshops, and conferences ” We have a variety of other books and pamphlets available. A list is available upon request.

54. -- Beliefnet.com questions in the BeliefO-Matic quiz. More on Secular humanism. Secular Philosophies Section; Related Links; humanism Message Boards. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/80/story_8040_1.html

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55. Teaching Christian Humanism The author ventures to do just this as he defines and advocates a curriculum of Christian humanism. He. Teaching Christian humanism. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9605/opinion/nemoianu.html

Opinion Virgil Nemoianu First Things 63 (May 1996): 16-22. Teaching Christian Humanism Once we've denounced the balderdash that all too often passes for teaching in contemporary American colleges, there still remains the question of what we ought to teach instead. Indignation is an insufficient alternative to the brutal secularization of the college curriculum. But some conservative commentators, after narrating all the outrageous anecdotes, seem baffled for a positive program of cultural education, and others even seem positively anticultural-as though willing to admit that the ideologies of the secularists are what constitute the humanities. The opposite is, of course, the actual case: the humanities were born of-and, by right, still belong to-a Christian religious tradition. They have always had as their goal the reconciliation between human solidarity on the one hand and the dignity of individual, concrete persons, situations, and facts on the other. The possibility of religious transcendence was "always already" (to speak with the deconstructionists) part of the whole project. This is why we urgently need college courses today on Christian humanism. Some students will undoubtedly mistrust the humanism of such classes, and many more will mistrust their Christianity. But Christian humanism is properly nothing but a reclaiming of the basic inheritance of our history and the natural connection of culture with the religious vistas of the human being. The current separation is the artificial relation, not the other way around. My own suggestions for a syllabus of Christian humanism are certainly not cast in stone. I mean them more as a spur to further reflection than as a map. I, for one, would try to tell my students most of the following.

56. Education As The Normative Dimesion Of Philosophical Hermeneuticas An article by David Blacker, that attempts to renew a dialogicallygrounded humanism, an old educational ideal that finds the beginnings of a compelling and novel defense in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/COE/EPS/PES-Yearbook/93_docs/BLACKER.HTM

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57. Humanism - Suite101.com humanism affirms reason; democracy; finding our own meaning in life; and a morality based on human needs. dewey decimal 144. Related Subject(s) humanism. http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/humanism

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58. Journal Of Liberal Religion 1, 2: Religious Humanism By William R. Murry Religious humanism An address delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly 2000. humanism should not be cold and sterile. http://www.meadville.edu/murry_1_2.html

A Publication of Meadville Lombard Theological School Spring 2000 Volume 1, Number 2 Religious Humanism An address delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly 2000 William R. Murry In every survey of UU's I have seen the majority identify themselves as religious humanists. Religious humanism in Unitarian Universalism now has a history of about 85 years. During that time it has evolved and changed somewhat. I want to mention what I consider to be the eight most important changes between the humanism of approximately the first 70 years and the new humanism that has been emerging for the last 15 or so years. For purposes of discussion I will call them the old and the new humanism. It is the new humanism that we at Meadville Lombard stress with our ministerial students who are humanist, but there is very little here that does not also apply to all our students, humanists and theists alike. These are some of the qualities and values we want our students to emphasize in their future ministries. First, the old humanism emphasized the single individual with very little emphasis on the importance of the community. Contemporary religious humanism must stress the importance of the covenanted religious community. We are not independent, isolated individuals. We become individuals in community, starting with the community of the family. And we become truly human only in authentic community with others. I define authentic community as people who covenant to walk together for common purposes. A humanistic religious community will be a caring community in which each person cares about and to some extent for others within the community and outside the community as well. Community does not destroy individuality; it makes it possible. The Xhosa of southern Africa have a saying that puts it well. They say, "I am because we are."

59. Humanist Association Of Toronto A site to learn about humanism, how and where to join, lists upcoming events and seminars with contacts and links for Humanists, atheists, rationalists in Toronto, and abroad. http://www.humanist.toronto.on.ca/

Humanist Association of Toronto Home Events Contact Constitution ... Links The Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT) is an independent, non-profit, charitable organization that promotes Secular Humanism and the separation of church and state. Objectives To promote education, understanding and development of the principles of Humanism; To defend and promote policies and practices consistent with these principles; To provide opportunities for Humanist service, study and socializing; To lend assistance to other organizations when their objectives coincide with ours; To offer and provide members and non-members with meaningful, dignified ceremonies, free of supernatural implications, at significant times such as marriage and death. News: HAT Annual Membership Meeting to be held on Sunday, June 13th at 1:00 pm HAT and Humanism is eye weekly magazine cover story HAT has a new message board. Start or join a conversation online HAT Names June Callwood Toronto Humanist of the Year ... HAT to Challenge Religious Courtroom Oaths and Texts Survey: Possible HAT French Interest Group "Many people would sooner die than think - in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Russell)

60. John Paul II And The Crisis Of Humanism John Paul II and the Crisis of humanism. The false humanism of the freedom of indifference leads first to freedom’s decay, and then to freedom’s demise. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9912/articles/weigel.html

John Paul II and the Crisis of Humanism George Weigel As Time and other premillennial makers–of–lists have discovered in recent months, there is no lack of candidates for the position of emblematic figure of the twentieth century. In the world of politics alone, there are several plausible nominees on a slate that includes the admirable and the odious in fairly equal proportion: Churchill, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Roosevelt, Reagan. Widening the search beyond the world of organized political power, a powerful case can be made for James Watson and Francis Crick, unravelers of the DNA "double–helix," the key to biotechnology and what will almost certainly be the most urgent set of issues on the twenty–first century’s public agenda. In a historical period dramatically shaped by the application, for good or ill, of new scientific knowledge, some might also argue for Fermi, Heisenberg, or another of the great mid–century nuclear physicists as the man who made the most enduring impact on our times. And while his status as a scientist and a student of the human condition has been badly shaken in recent decades, there is no doubt that Sigmund Freud had an enormous impact on the twentieth century. There is an element of the arbitrary in all such list–making, of course. And indeed here is an instance where the postmodern passion for hermeneutics makes eminent sense. In choosing the emblematic figure of the century now drawing rapidly to a close, it really is a matter of how one looks at things—in this instance, the dynamics of history.

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