Sentences with phrase «own secular humanist»

No, over 180 million people have been killed by their own secular humanist governments in the 20th Century.

While atheists and other secular Humanists may rejoice, this is not good news for the nation.

As secular humanists we are typically «not» trying to enforce «laws» on you «believers» that take away your equal rights under the conti - tution.

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.

Either we believe in that which all Christians (Catholic, Orthodox, Reformed) have always believed or we, in good faith leave and become Unitarian or secular humanists.

Also if I do not follow the canon believed by most Christians (give or take some duterocannonical books) I might as well be Baha'i, Muslim, or Secular Humanist.

Christians do so to save souls, secular humanists do so to better society.

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.

secular humanists always conveniently forget that more people have been murdered by evolutionists in the last century than then entire dark ages put together, i.e.: Hitler, Stalin, Mao

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.

We are moving closer and closer to a secular humanist philosophy here in the states.

Their thinking would be far closer to secular humanists than Christians.

I may be an atheist, but I am a secular humanist over all.

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.

- what gives secular humanists the right to define morality for me, or for anybody other than themselves.

Articulate it, and the Religious Right will likely dismiss you as a secular humanist.

The heretics, the renegades, the seekers, the questioners, the agnostics, and even the ethical atheists and secular humanists are my brothers and sisters and mothers.

Even the atheistic secular humanist.

'» The unspoken assumption — a questionable one — is apparently that the Christian consumer should find such merchants to be more honest, reliable and ethical in their business dealings than other merchants, who may identify themselves as Jewish, as secular humanists, as Christians who reject the «born - again» tag, or whatever.

And I really got ta say «progressive» Christians (two words that should never go together, the Gospel is timeless and therefore can not be progressive) have much more in common with atheists and secular humanists than they do with other actual Christians.

It is Atheist or Secular Humanist.

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).

We saw that in many instances, while we were struggling to interest the church in important causes, secular humanists were already effectively at work.

Such services are not truly interfaith nowadays unless they include Catholics and Jews, Muslims and Sikhs, and perhaps a secular humanist, too.

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..

As a secular humanist, we pride ourselves on the idea that we are «good for nothing.»

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.

As a Secular Humanist, a politician's beliefs don't matter to me.

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).

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.

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.

• Secular Humanist from Ohio The hotline is not about recruiting.

And it is downright popular to ridicule and defame «secular humanists,» agnostics, atheists, pantheists, etc., marginalizing THEIR beliefs with (false) claims that this is a Christian nation.

There seems to be a strong link between secular humanists, atheism and left wing slant.

As an intelligent secular humanist, I am more moral than your god, more moral than your «Jesus» and more moral than YOU.

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

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

Today, Schempp is a Unitarian and self - proclaimed atheist and secular humanist.

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.

I'm an atheist and an Existential Secular Humanist, (I drink, therefore I am, and no one's to blame for my h@ng0ver but me!)

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.

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

Secular humanists don't need a theological belief system to live a meaningful life.