HERB SILVERMAN is the founder of the Secular Coalition for America and of the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry in Charleston, South Carolina. He is Distinguished Mathematics Professor Emeritus of the College of Charleston and the author of Candidate without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt (Pitchstone, 2012). His latest book is An [...]
In January of 2016, my father had several unexplained seizures. Doctors discovered multiple tumors in his brain, and later in other organs throughout his body. He died in March of that same year at the age of 64. In April, my friend Dave was hit by a drunk driver who was speeding in a stolen [...]
What do you do when you feel bad about things that are happening to other people but aren’t able to help them? If I were Christian I would pray for them. What is the humanist alternative to prayer? I asked this question many years ago when I was in seminary at Scarritt College for Christian [...]
A Talk by Mel Lipman, HUUmanist Forum, August 27, 2017 The poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti celebrated his 98th birthday a few months ago. In 2007, after we learned that we were lied to by our government regarding Iraq's “weapons of mass destruction”, he wrote a poem called “Pity the Nation”. Unfortunately, that poem has become even [...]
The following thoughts are from our member Hyrum H. Huskey Jr. It’s mind-boggling to me. These last few months of the ascendancy of our latest President will surely be referred to by future historians as “The Time of Trump”. Life goes on amid disbelief, chaos, inconceivable Cabinet appointments, attacks on the press, and overreactions by [...]
Sometimes I think it is easy to forget why the basic principle of separation of church and state is so important. This shocking article was in the online publication TheHumanist.org (Link to website and article) In 2012 amateur historian Catherine Corless began investigating the abandoned Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, County Galway, [...]
HA Executive Director Roy Speckhardt Responds to President Trump’s Decision to Reverse Protections for Transgender Students “President Trump continues to show his complete disregard for basic human rights in his decision to reverse the Obama administration’s vital protections for transgender students. We humanists oppose discriminatory claims, largely perpetuated by extremist religious groups, that transgender students [...]
It was gratifying to see Professor Lipman’s essay, particularly his comments on “Good Without A God”, a phrase which appears to be a revision to Good Without God, to which I previously objected. I was unaware that the original phrase had been improved in this way.I had been hoping that others might continue the discussion [...]
It has been implied that the slogan, "Good without a god" implies the existence of a god. That is not so. The slogan clearly implies, "good without a belief in the existence of a god". It could say, "good without unicorns" or "good without tooth fairies", but that is not the intent of our slogan. [...]
You’ve probably heard the news by now that the fastest-growing religion in the USA is “Nones”. This misunderstood group is often defined as those who don’t belong to or attend a church, or subscribe to any dogmatic belief system. This statistic is said to include atheists and agnostics, secularists and humanists. Of course, Nones aren’t [...]
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