Sentences with word «humanist»

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A landmark court judgment which has found that Christian hotel owners had unlawfully discriminated on grounds of sexual orientation has been welcomed by the British Humanist Association as a victory for equality and liberty.

Ms Gallagher made oral submissions on behalf of Humanists UK focusing on the discrimination he has faced.

An essential element of Humanists UK activities was support of the growing number of local groups.

In this regard, these traditions have more in common with each other than with secular humanists who seek to justify human rights on the basis of reason alone.

Be thankful for the secular humanists who have largely tamed the beast of Christendom.

On Monday 11 September, the Court of Appeal will reconvene to conclude its hearing of the ongoing case to secure legal recognition for humanist marriages in Northern Ireland.

Hundreds of MPs and Peers have put pressure on the Government to press on with the legalisation of humanist marriage in recent days.

In 2016 the Head of Pastoral Support became a full - time paid role, supported by Humanists UK's Director of Community Services.

With the exception of some secular humanist groups, atheists don't have or attend anything remotely resembling churches.

The Government's announcement comes after 20 months of steady campaigning from Humanists UK for it to retain the 50 % cap.

Sincerely, African American Ministers in Action American Association of School Administrators American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) American Federation of School Administrators American Federation of Teachers American Humanist Association American Jewish Committee (AJC) Americans for Religious Liberty Americans United for Separation of Church and State Anti-Defamation League ASPIRA Association, Inc..

This equates to 6,744,405 Brits 68.17 % of people in Britain are aware of humanist ceremonies.

Now for the past 30 years he has been mining the rich lode of satirical denunciation and theological affirmation embedded in the Christian humanist tradition.

It takes a pragmatic approach to explain and apply Buddhist teachings and is based on humanist values.

A secular framework largely based on the liberal humanist traditions of the West was adopted by the elite as a common, centralized political authority.

The ASA recently ruled in favour of the British Humanist Society over complaints against its campaign slogan: «There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life.»

She continues: «Humanist funeral ceremonies aren't a «new thing».

In 2016 MPs from the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group also voiced concern at the Bishops» continuing presence.

You then go on to say that these despots aren't interested in humans, demonstrating that they aren't humanists on your definition, though, so I'm not sure what your point is.

You know, the irony is that this kind of secular humanist attitude is exactly what got Jesus nailed to the Cross.

He was a Jewish liberal intellectual in the Depression era in New York, and he was a post-Holocaust international humanist.»

MacBain, who started her job at the beginning of September, had planned to travel the country starting humanist communities at schools and organizations nationwide.

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It was, moreover, a Christian humanist vision which enabled him to reconcile his old science with his new faith and to reappropriate his Uncle Will's humanism in a religious framework.

As the first Humanist Chaplain at USC, he is committed to developing a community that offers regular inspiration, pastoral care, supportive fellowship and service opportunities to students, faculty, staff members and local families and individuals exploring or actively pursuing secular goodness as a way of life.

One who encouraged Scientific progress, supported gay rights and marriage and had a more humanist view on society and civilization.

In the end, the president of the British Humanists approaches the mystery of humans themselves with the same scientific approach he brings to his physics.

Tsai is one of Taiwan's finest, and one of the great humanists in modern cinema, and hopefully his appearance on the Lido this year will see him back on top.

As an organized movement, Humanism itself is quite recent — born at the University of Chicago in the 1920s, and made public in 1933 with the publication of the first Humanist Manifesto.

He wrote a book on humanism and is a member of the BHA Humanist Philosophers group.

The retrieval of patristic sources in the sixteenth century was not merely the happy product of Renaissance humanist learning, although of course it was that as well.

But despite the rise in the number of non-religious personnel, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which coordinates the national service of remembrance, still refuses to include Humanist representatives at the ceremony, and have twice rejected the BHA and UKAFHA's request for representation.

Gandhi with his reformed Hinduism and Nehru with his secular humanist belief reinforced the secular idea of politics and state, against the theocratic.

The Bangladeshi humanist blogger and author Ananta Bijoy Das has been hacked to death in Sylhet by four masked men wielding machetes and cleavers.

Thus, rather than fanatical advocates of absolute human freedom, religious humanists view themselves as faithful stewards of human finitude and creatureliness.

What secular humanists don't understand is even their world view of equal human rights are built on New Testament principles.

But if atheist humanists think they have arrived at a rational belief in the inherent dignity of humans, then they too should become Christians.

Andrew Copson Chief Executive of the BHA commented «We welcome this move towards equality for same sex couples, but the exclusion of humanist celebrants from this Bill is unfair.

For since human beings would be the judges of which tenets are included and which are excluded we find ourselves back again in the closed humanist world which denies supernatural revelation.

Naturally, we wanted to maintain our core educational philosophy, which for a Steiner school includes providing a comprehensive, general humanist education, which aims to educate students for life beyond employment and further study.