I can highly recommend the book “Humanly Possible: 700 years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope” by Sarah Bakewell if you wanted a nice overview; although it’s a lot of content it’s also quite light and you can dip in and out :)
Atheism is just an ideological position on deities., so you can be one and still have a religion. The article specifically notes his religion as Humanism, but he could be Buddhist, Taoist, any philosophical religion. I dunno if pantheism or Satanism would count, but don’t see why not; they’re both a hoot with very positive values.
And just like that I wasn’t an atheist.
As an ordained Dudeist minister, we keep it real, man. Doesn’t mean we have to abide the bullshit machines, though.
You can be a Humanist as well as an Atheist don’t worry pal.
Sweet! It’s probably obvious I didn’t read the article haha I was just making a joke. But I will do some reading on Humanism now - thank you!
I can highly recommend the book “Humanly Possible: 700 years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope” by Sarah Bakewell if you wanted a nice overview; although it’s a lot of content it’s also quite light and you can dip in and out :)
I’ll check it out! Thank you!
Freedom from religion is more important than freedom of religion.
Atheism is just an ideological position on deities., so you can be one and still have a religion. The article specifically notes his religion as Humanism, but he could be Buddhist, Taoist, any philosophical religion. I dunno if pantheism or Satanism would count, but don’t see why not; they’re both a hoot with very positive values.