Humanist Thought of the Week

God Gave You a Brain

I realize that thinking through difficult moral problems is hard.

Human Based Moralities

Both religious and human based moralities tend to focus on the same things: compassion and responsibility.

New Humanism

New Humanists are concerned with building a progressive social movement. And we recognize that we need to ally with progressive people of faith to accomplish that.

The Tragedy of Michael Jackson

Despite all the weirdness, drug addiction, plastic surgery addiction, potential pedophilia and whatever else the man had going on, He was a very talented performer.

Religion and Extremism

At his talk in Cairo, President Obama pointed out that religion isn't the problem, extremism is. And that is basically true, except for one thing.