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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:10 PM
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Secular Humanists chime in!
Keep in mind, you don't have to be agnostic or athiest to be one - there were many famous Christian (and even Islamic) Secular Humanists....
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Tyo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:18 PM
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1. Secular Humanist
Atheist branch, reporting for duty :hi:
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:22 PM
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2. Secular - check!
Edited on Tue Dec-05-06 04:22 PM by Kutjara
Humanist - eh, not so much. There are far too many flawed examples of the breed walking around for me to consider them a basis for moral philosophy. Except, perhaps, as a counterexample. So I'm a secular antihumanist, I guess.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 05:53 PM
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15. It's not whether humans do live by a moral philosophy...
...but can humans form a moral philosophy. One worth living at least...
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 10:21 PM
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22. On the available evidence, no. n/t
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crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:29 PM
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3. That would be me.
:hi:
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:30 PM
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4. FINALLY
:hi:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:38 PM
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5. *sigh* Oh, very well.
:rofl:
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:40 PM
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6. Happy Holidays from a Secular Progressive
There! I said it! In your FACE, Bill OhReally!! ;)
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buddhamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:50 PM
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7. Secular Humanist here
:hi:
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:54 PM
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8. I definitely am,
with a number of other tendencies and influences around the edges....

:hi:
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WhollyHeretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 04:58 PM
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9. Right here. Just got an email about a Secular Humanist meetup actually
Probably about destroying Christmas and bringing about the downfall of the country. Well, that or a small discussion of science.
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 05:07 PM
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10. What? What we do now?
Life long Sec Hum. Even used to hang out with the President of the American Humanist Association.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 05:07 PM
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11. that's what I tell the Jehovah's WItnesses
that I am when they come to the door. I love to see them scratch their heads.


:rofl:
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Schema Thing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 06:56 PM
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18. Funny, I pretty much went directly from Jehovah's Witness to Secular
Edited on Tue Dec-05-06 06:59 PM by AchtungToddler
Humanist.

I even have the opposing online beliefs test, taken 3 years apart, to prove it :)

It was quite a wild ride.

ps... there may be christian or muslim humanist, but there are no JW humanist. I suppose I was as close as a JW could come to being a humanist, but I wasn't even close.
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 05:19 PM
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12. Here!
:hi:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 05:20 PM
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13. Pretty much
Everything I've read about it, pretty much covers my feelings.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 05:23 PM
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14. I'm a Secular Felinist.
Because sometimes humans just suck. :(
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Arugula Latte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 06:37 PM
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17. Me too. I'm secular and but I do worship kitties.
That's the only type of worship that makes any sense to me.
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kiahzero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 06:03 PM
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16. It's not a term I would use to describe myself
However, from what I've read of it, I suppose it could be an accurate description.

So... :hi:
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 07:01 PM
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19. Chiming in.
I don't feel we need a book written by humans to give us morals, and

I feel there are enough examples of good and noble human behavior that we have absolute potential for morality.

I like the phrase "secular humanist" - it has a positive ring to it while transcending religious differences.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 07:56 PM
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20. Secular Humanist Here
chiming in

:hi:
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ulysses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 08:21 PM
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21. I'll cop to that.
:)
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-05-06 10:28 PM
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23. This Christian was married by a SH official, by MY choice!
So I'm checking in.
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