Sentences with phrase «american humanist»

Note that B. F. Skinner was named Humanist of the Year in 1972 by the American Humanist Association, indicating that behavioral counseling is considered compatible with humanistic philosophy as well (Epstein, 1997).

He received many awards, including distinguished psychologist, scientific researcher, and distinguished psychological practitioner from several associations, including the American Humanist Association, American Academy of Psychotherapists, Society for the Study for Scientific Sex, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, and Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy.

One of the noteworthy early calls for the creation of a global environmental agency appeared in an advertisement sponsored by the World Association of World Federalists (WAWF) in the January - February 1972 issue of The Humanist, published by the American Humanist Association.

Goldstein has been designated Humanist of the Year 2011 by the American Humanist Association, and Freethought Heroine 2011 by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

The agreement resulted from a meeting here attended by representatives of the National Education Association (nea), the National Council of Churches, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Humanist Association, among others.

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And in 2011 she was designated Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.

A general outline of Humanism is also set out in the Humanist Manifesto prepared by the American Humanist Association.

[23] The American Humanist Association was incorporated as an Illinois non-profit organization in 1943.

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICES COMMITTEE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS (Founded by Deist - Unitarian Clara Barton) AMERICARES HANDS ON HUMANITY is a project of the Universist Movement.

A few have banded together in the Ethical Culture Society and The American Humanist Association.

The American Humanist Association (AHA) claimed the annual initiative violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

-- Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association

Vashti McCollum always said she was a humanist, not an atheist, and she served as president of the American Humanist Association for two terms.

The Bible and the Quran contain «horrific material, and to say you get your morality from there» is a problem, the head of the American Humanist Association said Tuesday as the group launches what it calls the largest, most extensive advertising campaign ever by a godless organization.

In his first year, according to tax documents, the nonprofit disbursed $ 700,000 to groups like the Secular Coalition for America, the American Humanist Association and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

I was refering to the ad campaign being a philosophical discussion, as it is targetted at exposing a wider range of the public to the beliefs of Humanists (at least as American Humanist Association understands them).

American Humanist Association, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Atheists Helping the Homeless, Fellowship of Freethought, Foundation Beyond Belief, etc., etc..

«It is not enough that we are growing in numbers,» said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association.

The co-host of Fox's «The Five» was referring to a suit brought by the American Humanist Association in Massachusetts, where the state's Supreme Judicial Court heard a challenge to the pledge on Wednesday.

= > every time the American Atheists, or ACLU, or American Humanists take cases to court, they are attempting to influence legislation based on their belief.

Chard lies: every time the American Atheists, or ACLU, or American Humanists take cases to court, they are attempting to influence legislation based on their belief.»

Not exact matches

When the Christian right attacked what was understood to be a recently achieved secular humanist hegemony in American politics and culture, the thrust struck deeper than they imagined.

Rushdoony, for example, sees no place in a Reconstructed society for the panoply of Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Baha'is, humanists, atheists and non - Reconstructionist Christians that make up American religious pluralism.

[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938 Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church of Christ --------- 736 Church of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815

It is past time for us secular humanists, wimp liberals, and unborn - again spoilers of the American Dream to wake up.

DeWitt is now an avowed atheist, and his audiences are made up of religious «nones,» the growing number of Americans who are atheist, agnostic, humanist or just plain disinterested in identifying with a religion.

Nonetheless, if American schools would be willing to recognize diversity and perhaps even to incorporate colleges with diverse commitments, whether religious, feminist, gay, politically liberal or conservative, humanist, liberationist, or whatever, pluralism might have a genuine chance to thrive.

Very few American secular humanists are polemical atheists.

The person who wrote this article is obviously a «secular humanist» sent by Satan to somehow confuse American Christians into thinking it's okay to enjoy sex, or anything else for that matter.

A coalition of atheists and secular humanists has placed a billboard on Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte that displays an American flag with a few key words from the Pledge of Allegiance: «One Nation Indivisible.»

Unfortunately, the North American church has unwittingly swallowed humanist frameworks hook, line, and sinker.

American Association for the Advancement of Science American Astronautical Society Fellow American Astronomical Society American Geophysical Union American Philosophical Society 1995 American Physical Society Children's Health Fund Advisory Board CSICOP Founding Member: 1976 Council for a Livable World Council on Foreign Relations Federation of American Scientists Guggenheim Foundation International Academy of Humanism Laureate International Astronomical Union NASA Planetary Society Co-Founder (1980) Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Icarus Editor (1975 - 85) Parade Columnist Peabody 1980 for Cosmos Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 1978 for The Dragons of Eden Oersted Medal 1990 Emmy Outstanding individual achievement for Cosmos, 1981 Emmy Outstanding Informational Series for Cosmos, 1981 Hugo 1981 for Cosmos Hugo 1997 for The Demon - Haunted World Hugo 1998 for Contact Humanist of the Year 1981 Public Welfare Medal 1993 Appendectomy Tompkins County Community Hospital, Ithaca, NY (19 - Mar - 1983) Bone - marrow transplant Apr - 1995 Proxy Baptism: Mormon Provo, UT (13 - Mar - 1998) Austrian Ancestry Maternal Ukrainian Ancestry Paternal Jewish Ancestry Asteroid Namesake 2709 Sagan Risk Factors: Marijuana

It is an intriguing story from real life: with brutal moments, underpinned by a sturdily liberal and humanist balance in its portrayal of an important and little - known encounter between a white woman and a Native American.

Destined to be this year's American Honey (both are wandering, lyrical, bare bones in terms of plot, though this is even better than that diamond in the rough) The Florida Project is a humanist primal scream, a lovingly crafted portrait of unfettered soulfulness.

CHICAGO — Josh Radnor may be one of the most good natured humanists in modern American film.

As a critique of America and the failure of the American Dream, Florida is as strong a political film as a humanist one.

But Magnus Jønck's sublime photography enables Haigh to cast a humanist eye over Charley's plight and a little - seen aspect of the American Dream.

1976 The Presence and the Absence in Realism, Roland Gibson Gallery, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY Drawing Now: Ten Artists, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, New York, NY American Artists:» 76: A Celebration, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX American Concern: The Humanist View, Haupert Union Building, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA Perspective 1976, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA Cordier & Elkstrom Gallery, New York, NY

Although he embraced American culture, Tworkov often expressed a sense of alienation both in his public life as well as in his private existence as a deeply intellectual painter who defied the whims of the avant - garde in order to forge his own progressive and humanist approach to art.

«Looking for an Honest Man» Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist Leon R. Kass / Jefferson Lecture American Enterprise Institute