There are some interesting topics going on at their Facebook page and theirwebsite. Note...you don't have to be an atheist to be a humanist...though there really aren't that many who aren't. The only thing missing from the very brief explanation is the "secularism" part...which I admit is implied...but I think is very important.
What's amazing about this is that these three things have to collectively have a name - an ism that people subscribe to. They should be just what we all do.
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Simon, it's an "ism" to make it quick to describe. If someone had to recite those three points to explain to someone how they behaved, instead of just saying "I'm a humanist" (-ist just being the form that means a person who practices -ism) it'd get tedious. So the label just serves as a sort of "pronoun" or substitute for the full description (in point of fact so do all non-proper nouns).
Imagine if one needed to recite the full humanist manifesto: http://americanhumanist.org/humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III
It does become problematic when someone decides to go around being the purity police and saying "I'm the arbiter of what X-ism is and don't you dare call yourself an X-ist unless you do it exactly as I say." (In some cases there's a little bit of reason one can claim to a high degree of specificity, but those are pretty extraordinary, exceptions rather than the rule.)
I take exception to the first part of #3. Human flourishing has destroyed most of this planet already. Why keep going. On a cosmic basis the human race is a destructive planetary disease.
Gregg RThomas +1
Hate to say it, but we stand in need of a major plague or WW3 or we'll take the planet down completely unintentionally, the way an overpopulation of deer can destroy a forest.
I'm trying to imagine an interpretation of "flourishing" that would reduce the number of human beings, which is something the world desperately needs.
Okay Unseen. Shall we start with you?
Reduce the birth rate and increase health.
Awww, Davis, that's not nice.
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