Download or read book Sacred Humanism without Miracles written by R. Saltman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Atheists' claim that religion always leads to fanaticism is baseless. State-backed religion results in tyranny. Sacred humanists work to implement their highest values that will improve this world; separation of church and state, eliminating denigration of nonbelievers, assuring just governance, and preventing human trafficking.
Download or read book Without Burnt Offerings written by Algernon D. Black and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book I share some of my experiences with the ceremonies of Humanism as I have known them. The calls for our services have come from individuals and families of all religious, racial, national, and class backgrounds. "A ceremony cannot make the sun rise or stop an earthquake, even if people believe it will. It cannot cause some power outside of man to intervene in the laws of nature on behalf of an individual or group or nation, a particular race or religious set. It cannot assure favor to those who are more honest or just or loving than most. Nor can it save the human species if human beings persist in working destruction and death against each other and against life itself. "A ceremony can bring people together. It can bring them together at an important time to share responsibility and make common commitment. It can celebrate the joyous and challenging situations of life. It can commemorate and keep alive the memory and influence of persons and achievements. The ceremonies of Humanism can meet needs that lie at the heart of human experience. They can enrich and bring meaning to the spiritual lives of mankind. They can help human beings continue the search for a faith to live by; a faith consistent with the best in human thought and feeling, a faith which will help the individual fulfill his potentialities for a creative life. They can help humankind find ways of meeting the challenges of nature and the most difficult problems of the world of human relationships." -Algernon D. Black
Download or read book Modern Humanism Living Without Religion written by Alfred Hobson and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanism written by John Hassler Dietrich and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HUMANISM: Foundational Teachings of Rev. John Hassler Dietrich, The Father of Modern Religious and Secular Humanism. 1920's and 1930's. Human beings, mostly men, made up stories of Gods, Bibles and holy book's, out of imagination, with no evidence. Some of them became strong by convincing people to follow them and their God's live in the imagination of the believer. None of the Religions were Democratic because they all believed their own God had the final truth.Some People always doubted what religions had to say so they found each other and created a Scientific Method to study the Universe and our World that allowed all Scientifically minded people to have a say in what was true and debate the ideas to see what works and what does not work. Many Scientists reject the God Concept due lack of evidence and explain how natural law demonstraits that matter and energy exist and change shape and form, but was not created and cannot be destroyed. At the beginning of our Universe this matter and energy was crushed together under the greatest gravity that has existed, overheated and exploded about 13 to 15 billion years ago expanding into the Universe we see today. A few billion years later part of that matter and energy formed into the Earth where evolution occurred which evolved all life.Since humans developed from Nature rather than being created, we live, act to be creative, die without a soul, God, heaven or hell or immortality. When we die we cease to exist, and all suffering ends. We live as though to agree with Mark Twain's statement about what he thought of Dying when he said, "I was dead (not existing) for billions of years before I was born and it did not hurt me at all."Humanists could cry and be sad that we have only one life but we choose to see the good in our one life, to enjoy it and improve on it for us now and for our children in the future, knowing that when we die all awareness, pain and suffering will end. There are only about 500 of Dietrich's hour long presentations out of 1500 he researched and wrote. A few of these presentations are foundational teachings that teach us what Humanism is. The rest are about how these foundational teachings apply to any issues of Human concern in a World with no God. The Scientific Method, not Religion or God, tells us what the Universe and Earth are and how they came to be and how they function, including Evolution. Humans have no knowledge of any God. Humans simply made up ideas about Gods and Religions. The Universe may have come to be when all of the matter and Energy existing compacted by gravity into a tiny mass and then exploded into the Universe we see today billions of years later. Or it may have popped into existence from nothing. These are two ways science explains it today but as we learn more it may be explained in other ways. When the Earth formed several billion years later, by chance, this globe had all of the water, gases and other things that was necessary to create an atmosphere. This atmosphere generated heat and lightning, which caused some tiny organisms to form. Over those billions of years they evolved into larger and larger creatures until some of them became too large to exist. Those began to diminish in size. Many of these smaller ones evolved into more complex creatures. Eventually some of these creatures developed larger brains and became humans, the ancestors of all of us who exist today. Over thousands of years some of these humans made discoveries, which allowed humans to live easier lives. These humans created what we need to live. Other humans made up stories Gods to try to make sense of the World.
Download or read book Eupraxophy written by Paul Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kurtz is one of the rare intellectuals of our time, the most energetic and best informed of the humanists". -- The Christian Century
Download or read book Morality Without God written by Frank Skiff Jannotta and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanism and Christianity written by Francis John McConnell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humanism and Christianity written by Francis John McConnell and published by Wakeman Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Download or read book Me Myself and Who written by Ernest Gordon and published by Bridge-Logos. This book was released on 1980 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest Gordon's timely book, Me, Myself and Who?, provides, for students and parents, a helpful overview of the philosophical forces at work on today's campus. He shows clearly how the Christian faith remains an intellectually respectable option for the university student who wishes to retain academic integrity. Dr. Gordon draws upon his extensive knowledge of the liberal arts and humanities, and his earlier struggles with humanism, to give students a dynamic world view through which they can evaluate their academic pursuits. A unique book Me, Myself and Who?, is for every person who truly wants to find himself. -- Publisher (back cover)
Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Download or read book Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower written by Tom Krattenmaker and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an argument for secular non-believers maintaining that following Jesus Christ as a teacher, example, and primary guide for living can serve to give meaning and direction to those who don't believe in the supernatural elements of Christianity.
Download or read book God Is Not Great written by Christopher Hitchens and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End Of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope’s awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
Download or read book The Jefferson Bible written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's composition excluded sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists. In 1895, the Smithsonian Institution under the leadership of librarian Cyrus Adler purchased the original Jefferson Bible from Jefferson's great-granddaughter Carolina Randolph for $400. A conservation effort commencing in 2009, in partnership with the museum's Political History department, allowed for a public unveiling in an exhibit open from November 11, 2011, through May 28, 2012, at the National Museum of American History.
Download or read book Religion without God written by Ronald Dworkin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God’s place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is inspired by remarks Einstein made that if religion consists of awe toward mysteries which “manifest themselves in the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, and which our dull faculties can comprehend only in the most primitive forms,” then, he, Einstein, was a religious person. Dworkin joins Einstein’s sense of cosmic mystery and beauty to the claim that value is objective, independent of mind, and immanent in the world. He rejects the metaphysics of naturalism—that nothing is real except what can be studied by the natural sciences. Belief in God is one manifestation of this deeper worldview, but not the only one. The conviction that God underwrites value presupposes a prior commitment to the independent reality of that value—a commitment that is available to nonbelievers as well. So theists share a commitment with some atheists that is more fundamental than what divides them. Freedom of religion should flow not from a respect for belief in God but from the right to ethical independence. Dworkin hoped that this short book would contribute to rational conversation and the softening of religious fear and hatred. Religion without God is the work of a humanist who recognized both the possibilities and limitations of humanity.
Download or read book God s Philosophers written by James Hannam and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Download or read book 95 Theses on Humanism written by Ignace Demaerel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rise and growth of secularization, the place of God and religion is becoming increasingly problematic in our Western culture. But what is the alternative to its Christian heritage? Humanism puts “man” at the center of everything, but can you “believe in man” just as much as you can believe in God? Is this secular worldview really rational, based on science, consistent, and durable? And above all, does our society become more humane because of it? Can you simply obliterate God from our culture and values without these collapsing like a pudding? Secular humanism has always been extremely critical of the church—and in itself that is allowed—but what if we judge and measure it with the same criteria?
Download or read book Life After Faith written by Philip Kitcher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective, one that answers human needs, recognizes the objectivity of values, and provides for the universal desire for meaningfulness. Kitcher thoughtfully and sensitively considers how secularism can respond to the worries and challenges that all people confront, including the issue of mortality. He investigates how secular lives compare with those of people who adopt religious doctrines as literal truth, as well as those who embrace less literalistic versions of religion. Whereas religious belief has been important in past times, Kitcher concludes that evolution away from religion is now essential. He envisions the successors to religious life, when the senses of identity and community traditionally fostered by religion will instead draw on a broader range of cultural items—those provided by poets, filmmakers, musicians, artists, scientists, and others. With clarity and deep insight, Kitcher reveals the power of secular humanism to encourage fulfilling human lives built on ethical truth.
