LATEST NEWS
- Please don't label me ... Let me grow up and choose for myself
- Northern Ireland's first ever humanist advertising campaign has just been launched. Click here to read Humani press release.
- Next meeting
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- Losing our Religion, 12th October
-
Humani ceremonies coordinator Myrtle Ewing will appear on the BBC1 programme Losing our Religion on Monday 12th October at 9pm.It will include film of a Humanist naming ceremony.
- Humani welcomes guidelines on assisted suicide.
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- NI DPP guidelines on Assisted Suicide 23/09/09
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- Eamonn McCann on Assisted Suicide
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- Carlingford 2009
- Click here to view the summer school pictures.
- Humanism Ireland Magazine
- Click here to view September-October issue.
- Social foundation development
- Humani works with the Social Development Foundation to help the Dalits of India >>Click here to read more
- Discussion Forum
- Click here to view the ThinkHumanism forum.
What is Humanism ?
Humanism is a view of life and a way of life. It is for those people who base their interpretation of existence on the evidence of the natural world and its evolution, and not on belief in a supernatural power. Humanism is the belief that we can live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. Humanists make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values. We seek to make the best of the one life we have by creating meaning and purpose for ourselves. We take responsibility for our actions and work with others for the common good.
Dictionary
definition
Humanism, n;
devotion to human interests; system of thought concerned with human not
religious matters; literary culture, esp. in Renaissance; doctrine
emphasising common human needs and seeking solely rational ways of
solving human problems; humanist n
Fundamental
principles
The International Humanist Ethical
Union has drawn up a useful
statement of the fundamental
principles of
modern Humanism called the Amsterdam
Declaration
Secularism
in Northern Ireland
A
2004 survey shows that 10% of the Northern Ireland population has no
religious affilliation
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Humanist
Handbook
Brian
McClinton, the editor of our bi-monthly magazine, has written
the
following handbook for Humanists.