By Jeff Smelser Humanism, as set forth in the Humanist Manifestos, is represented organizationally by the American Humanist Association (AHA). This organization was formed in 1941 by some of those who had signed the 1933 Humanist Manifesto. It is under the auspices of the AHA that The Humanist is published, and it was in this periodical …
Continue reading “Humanist Influence In The ACLU And Planned Parenthood”
By Tom Moody “Wow, I didn’t know I was going to get to do this so early in the course!” The philosophy professor then hurried out of his classroom, returning minutes later with an overhead transparency displaying, to his class of 18-19 year olds, four supposed Bible contradictions. This was the scene last fall at Jefferson …
By Ronny Milliner Humanists “reject the idea that God has intervened miraculously in history” (A Secular Humanist Declaration, p. 18). Not only do they reject the miraculous, but they also have a very degrading view of those of us who do believe in the miraculous. Paul Kurtz, the editor of the humanist magazine Free Inquiry, wrote …
By Bobby Witherington In 1933, a group of 34 humanists in the United States set forth the philosophical and religious principles which they regarded as fundamental. The document they drafted is known as Humanist Manifesto L Herein are contained some 15 radical affirmations. Affirmation number one says: “Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existent and not …
