About 15% of the nation’s population claims to be “Non-Religious.” Non-religious organizations are not just grouped in certain areas, they are all over the world. Australia, Europe, and North America seem to have more non-religious people than other continents. Secular Humanism falls into the non-religious category of belief systems, or lack there-of, should I say.
By definition from Google, Secular Humanism is “a comprehensive, nonreligious life stance incorporating: a naturalistic philosophy, a cosmic, outlook rooted in science. A consequentialist ethical system.” When it is said to be comprehensive, it means that is includes the beliefs of values, actual meaning, and personal identity rather than just having strong feelings against supernaturalism, much like atheism and agnosticism does. Secular Humanism has been called a eupraxsophy, which is a set of principles adequate enough for completing a human life.
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Freethought is defined on Google as “a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.” Atheism is the belief of no supernatural or spiritual gods. It makes perfect sense how Secular Humanism is partly modeled after these two systems. Secular Humanism stresses the importance of questioning anything rationally. Some research shows influence from Confucianism in China, Indian materialists, and even Skeptics. “Freethought” came about during the Renaissance, along with enlightenment and scientific beliefs. This new way of not necessarily needing religion to function paved the way for consequentialism. The idea of this non-religious way of living progressed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and had developed into what it is today within the last hundred
By definition from Google, Secular Humanism is “a comprehensive, nonreligious life stance incorporating: a naturalistic philosophy, a cosmic, outlook rooted in science. A consequentialist ethical system.” When it is said to be comprehensive, it means that is includes the beliefs of values, actual meaning, and personal identity rather than just having strong feelings against supernaturalism, much like atheism and agnosticism does. Secular Humanism has been called a eupraxsophy, which is a set of principles adequate enough for completing a human life.
Although it is non-religious and excludes all …show more content…
Freethought is defined on Google as “a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.” Atheism is the belief of no supernatural or spiritual gods. It makes perfect sense how Secular Humanism is partly modeled after these two systems. Secular Humanism stresses the importance of questioning anything rationally. Some research shows influence from Confucianism in China, Indian materialists, and even Skeptics. “Freethought” came about during the Renaissance, along with enlightenment and scientific beliefs. This new way of not necessarily needing religion to function paved the way for consequentialism. The idea of this non-religious way of living progressed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and had developed into what it is today within the last hundred