“Trying hard to understand ourselves is a defining characteristic of being human, even if it doesn't result in the comfort provided by unquestioning faith in a supposed omnipotent being who knows us completely.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“When we come into money or lose a job, when our land experiences floods or droughts, when our country finds peace or enters wars, there are this-worldy reasons for these events. Appealing to a mystical force will do no good.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“When we come into money or lose a job, when our land experiences floods or droughts, when our country finds peace or enters wars, there are this-worldly reasons for these events. Appealing to a mystical force will do no good.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“If people are to be respected, they deserve to know who we truly are.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Hiding your identity means lying to everyone you know, forcing them to love someone fictional out of fear that they might not like the real you. However, given the chance, most family members love the person, not the lie, and everyone benefits from a more honest relationship.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Foundationally, fundamentalists believe that all goodness derives from their god, so the presence of anyone being good without their god is a constant reminder that something is wrong with their belief on the source of goodness. They fumble for other possibilities like the improbable idea that all atheists are bad or the absurd conclusion that atheists don't exist and instead, that atheists have just deluded themselves into thinking they are atheists. That's why fundamentalists react with such remarkable aversion and hate when confronted with the AHA's simple GOOD WITHOUT A GOD stickers, advertisements, and billboards. It's why they so vehemently characterize our positive personal statement as a personal attack on them.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“As we move into the future, one can predict where traditional spirituality will continue to lose its authority. The prejudice seen commonly among the faithful today, that goodness can only come through godliness - will be less and less accepted. As more and more of the population who are atheists and agnostics come out of the closet to their friends, family, and neighbors, it will be difficult to hold the claim that so many lack the ability to lead productive moral lives. As this claim breaks down, religion and spirituality will begin to lose its connection to goodness in general. No longer will it be a social liability to voice rationalist principles.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“Mary is the admirable echo of God.”
Source: The Secret of Mary
“In order for tomorrow to move in an enlightened direction, humanists and nontheists of all stripes must unite coalitions on every matter facing us today. As Frederick Douglass said: "Power concedes nothing without a demand.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“The danger of the government's public embrace of religious belief is that it inhibits academic freedom, compromises civil liberties, and tears down the wall of separation between religion and government.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism