Sentence examples for humanism are from inspiring English sources

The tenets of humanism are taken to be facts, while other moral or metaphysical positions are simply beliefs.

Pornography, abortion, divorce, militant homosexuality, drugs, crime, and atheistic humanism are corrupting the moral fibre of the country and destroying its will to resist Communism.

ACROSS the world, people who reject all religious belief or profess secular humanism are facing ever worse discrimination and persecution, but the existence and legitimacy of such ideas is becoming more widely known and accepted.

Other atheistic groups, like the Freedom From Religion Foundation or the Council for Secular Humanism, are more concerned with maintaining an unshakable separation between church and state than they are with spreading any gospel of godlessness.

I talked to Babu Goginieni, now the international director of the movement, who was relaxed about theology: "The enemies of humanism are not only on the religious side," he said.

Since he repeats his views, I repeat my response, in a review written for the New Humanist magazine, to them: "John Gray is a curious figure whose habitual assaults on humanism are all carried along with  such breezy assertion and generalisation that his underlying bitter pessimism is cloaked in motley.

"A related aspect of humanism is the idea that the human mind reflects the order of the cosmos".

"In the most general terms," he tells us, "humanism is the idea that the human animal is the site of some kind of unique value in the world".

Humanism is about the belief "that human beings find value in the here and now rather than in something above and beyond".

Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority.

Humanism is made from a faith in humans, as they actually are, flawed and real, screaming devilish threats at casino managers and then singing "Angel Eyes".