For Liberal Secular Humanists who are nice people and recognize that there is room for all beliefs in the world. This group is for friendly, open discourse. Flame wars and serious snarkiness will not be tolerated. Silly snarkiness, on the other hand... Well, that's a different subject!

We were in the Religion & Beliefs category, but that didn't really suit. Might switch over to Cultures & Community, but for now many of us are mightily entertained by the idea of "The Fine Art of Secular Humanism." ;)

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Here are some nice bits on the subject of secular humanism:

We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guilt or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness, and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.

We believe in the fullest realization of the best and noblest that we are capable of as human beings.

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www.secularhumanism.org/index.php

Main Principles:

Free Inquiry
Separation Of Church And State
The Ideal Of Freedom
Ethics Based On Critical Intelligence
Moral Education
Religious Skepticism
Reason
Science And Technology
Evolution
Education

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Keep it respectful. We're all good people. :)

Hugs,
SistaWeotch

http://tribes.tribe.net/niceliberalsecularhumanists