Archive for August, 2008


Secular Humanist Tenets Part 4 - Search for Truth

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Four weeks ago I wrote about false assumptions and how Christians suffered in the past because of them just as atheists suffer today.  Atheism doesn’t have a philosophy or principles to counter these false assumptions any more than it has a philosophy or principles to deserve them.  Secular humanism does put forward a set of positive traits and promotes a world view.  These are:

  1. Need to test beliefs
  2. Reason, evidence, scientific method
  3. Fulfillment, growth, creativity
  4. Search for truth
  5. This life
  6. Ethics
  7. Building a better world

The search for truth is something that both secular humanists and those who belong to one theistic group or another can appreciate.  Secular humanists, I think, take a slightly different stance to it though.

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I Believe in Miracles

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I was experiencing a serious creative block, so I decided to pull a fun one out of my archives. Have a great week! Mike
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Miracle? Or just clever camera work?

Link to video

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Secular Humanist Tenets Part 3 - Fulfillment, growth, creativity

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Three weeks ago I wrote about false assumptions and how Christians suffered in the past because of them just as atheists suffer today.  Atheism doesn’t have a philosophy or principles to counter these false assumptions any more than it has a philosophy or principles to deserve them.  Secular humanism does put forward a set of positive traits and promotes a world view.  These are:

  1. Need to test beliefs
  2. Reason, evidence, scientific method
  3. Fulfillment, growth, creativity
  4. Search for truth
  5. This life
  6. Ethics
  7. Building a better world

This week I wish to discuss why secular humanists value fulfilment, growth and creativity in life.

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