Sentences with phrase «of secular humanists»

Fundamentalists say that a small cabal of secular humanists screens out the tradition's symbols.

somebody in the mainstream media has acknowledged there are countless numbers of secular humanists out here!!

I googled and see there are different types of secular humanists.

But there was nothing great about our lives — nothing that took us outside of our secular humanist worldview that told us that science and logical reasoning would teach us the meaning of life.

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

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

His world view is that of a secular humanist and a Marxist.

Not exact matches

The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

I don't care what all the secular humanists and their ilk think, there IS an agenda to discredit Christianity in America and the rest of the Western world.

Evolution is on the way out, and intense religionists (secular humanists) such as Bill have no tenable hold on the realities of our existence.

The secular humanist public schools are always on about persecution, hoping to entice kids into believing that if they leave their faith they will be part of the «majority» and therefore safer.

Those who are Buddhists will follow one set of laws, secular humanists on, Utilitarians on, Unitarian Universalists one (with a lot of variation), etc. «Atheism» in itself says nothing at all about one's ethical beliefs.

Agnostics / secular humanists believe their is no evidence that proves the existance of God therefore at this time the most rational and logical belief system would not incorporate a God.

«As a prominent post-Christian now serving as the secular humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California, I am often asked to tell my story and explain what happened to my faith.

Ever heard of an evolutionary biologist or secular humanist or atheist running into a church with a bomb screaming «Darwin Al Akbah, Darwin Al Akbah».

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

Channelling the spirit of John Lennon's «Imagine», he describes a utopian vision of the future in which the «depth and warmth» of his own secular - humanist philosophy is universally embraced at the expense of God.

It's a private university delivering a secular - humanist approach to a variety of disciplines.

The idea of Secular Nationalism and Secular State were the creation of cooperation between Gandhi's reformed religion and Nehru's liberal humanist secularism and they succeeded to establish itself in India against the idea of Hindu and Muslim communalism.

Keith Barltrop's review of Alain de Botton's new book brings out the bankruptcy of an alternative, humanist approach, in which Christian ideas, cut free from their Christian roots, are appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal secular society.

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.

However, we do know that Bart Campolo is now serving as a Humanist chaplain and speaking at Secular Student Alliance conferences designed to gather a «community of atheists, agnostics, and nonbelievers.»

But, just a few clicks down I saw he is the Humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California and a speaker for the Secular Student Alliance (SSA).

But if Catholicism is nothing more than one manifestation of an «ethics of love,» then there is no non-arbitrary reason to be Catholic (rather than, say, a secular humanist).

But it is easier than watching people slink away ashamed of their ignorance because they don't know what a «secular humanist» is and what they «stand for».

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..

In his first encyclical, issued while the Council was still finding its way, Paul VI called for a Church in dialogue with other churches, with other religions, and with secular humanists, but called attention to the virtual impossibility of dialogue with atheistic communism.

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.

One of Pagels's goals is to indicate how profoundly the Western world has been influenced by the patristic period, an acknowledgment resisted by many «secular humanist» historians.

These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

[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

The secular and humanist Internet pages would be filled with dire warnings about how this proves the danger of religion.

Humanists and other secular groups, many of whom are religious, are fighting back against this assault on our educational and political system.

Unfortunately the secular humanist worldview as it presently stands is a horrific, dystopian abyss of meaninglessness and pleasure - seeking.

As I have already agreed with you, secular humanists (who act like the religious) and militant atheists who profess a categorical belief in the non-existence of God are indistinguishable from the religious.

How different are their passions from the annoying, petty complaints of today's secular humanists (who often assume that belief emanates from the lowest common denominator of comfort seekers).

You are my only example of what a Secular Humanist is.

After all, if the nation (that is, all of us) is «besieged by religious zealots» or «controlled by secular humanists,» the image suggests that we shut fast the gates and unite to repel their attacks.

It was humanists, both religious and secular that banded together to win the rights movements of the past.

What happens when a Secular Humanist fails, like mistakingly murders someone in a fit of rage?

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

I think spiritual or religious have no real differentiation when it comes to comparing to secular humanist way of living.

I consider myself a Secular Humanist with a primary focus of hoping to help in the survival of humanity.

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.

Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.

According to Summit, a person who thinks evolution is a legitimate scientific theory, supports regulation of the free market, identifies with left - wing politics, and «seeks to empower the powerless, that is, women, minorities and homosexuals» is a postmodern secular humanist with some Marxist tendencies.

ACLU, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctor's Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, Donors Choose, Oxfam, Kiva, Goodwill Industries, The Nature Conservancy, Rotary Fund, Seed Foundation, The Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort or S.H.A.R.E., The Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations Children's Fund, The Wheelchair Foundation, The Anti Discrimination Support Network, The Tanzanian Children's Fund, PlanUSA, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Afghan Children's Fund, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation (Superman was an atheist), Coalition to stop the use of child soldiers, Direct Relief International, The Halo Trust, Orbis....

@Bob Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, World Health Organization, Greenpeace, Kiva, Donors Choose, Union of Concerned Scientists, ACLU, Amnesty International, Oxfam, Population Connection, Mercy Corps, Electronic Frontiers Foundation, International Peace Insti / tute, Secular Humanist Aid and Relief Effort, Atheist Relief Fund, Secular Center USA, HIVOS, Earthward Inc.... etc etc..

Nevertheless, stirrings or «preambles» of faith, to which the Synod Propositions refer (see page 21), can provide a basis for the dialogue that the Synod advocates with secular humanists, scientists, and people of other religions.