Secular-humanist thinking helped me get a better sense of the interconnecting systems that create inequities in the world and reinforced in me the need to get involved in creating social change".
Avoid this kind of anti-humanist thinking as much as you can.
The so-called "neutral" state is, in reality, the attempt to impose an ideology – an individualist, humanist form of thinking.
The proposed arts cuts are not an austerity measure; they're a know-nothing strategy of dominance to undercut humanists, researchers, writers, artists, a thinking public.
The role of merchants and trade became increasingly seen as important to the country, and usury gradually became more widely accepted, with English economic thinking increasingly influenced by Renaissance humanist theories.
If Dennett seeks to reconcile the existence of the soul with the physical world — to connect bacteria to Bach — Kronman sets out to do something similar in the humanist tradition: he tries to integrate the many contradictory ways of thinking about life that, as modern people, we want to credit simultaneously.
It may not be visible in the way that state occasions or BBC television and radio slots display the practices of believers, but that's because for most of us our way of being atheists or humanists is simply to do life that way, whether we're going shopping or thinking about our dead loved ones.
And thinking, thinking, thinking".
Having witnessed Autism Speaks', and others' development from when I founded and developed GRASP, it got me thinking...Of those organizations that make embarrassing headlines every two years or so (and we are due), how many of them are still unaware of the humanist traps they fell into, and the destructive impact this may have had on their overwhelmed members?
But it also can appear where you least expect it, even on the pages of that bastion of rational thinking, The Humanist.
