The Humanist Manifesto III
Channel: C0nc0rdance
Date: 2012-08-03

NOTE:  "The Science of Race, Part 2", is currently in production.  I expect to have it up by next week.  Thank you for bearing with me on the long delay.  Work and personal commitments have slowed the script writing process.


This reading is in honor of the recent passing of Gore Vidal, an author who influenced me at a young age.  Gore was a one-time spokesman for the American Humanist Association, sharing that honor with other authors like Kurt Vonnegut and Isaac Asimov.  You can read more about Gore here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal

What is Humanism?  This Manifesto attempts to address the common goals of humanism.  It is not a dogma.  In fact, it is revised every twenty years or so.  As Kurt Vonnegut elegantly put it "Being a humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead".  It is the ethical and moral code of many non-believers.

I hope you will investigate the Humanist Manifesto III further at the AHA website:
http://www.americanhumanist.org/humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_III

Atheism has no moral dimension.  There are no credos or manifestos to non-belief.  Humanism, on the other hand, contains some ideas of how we would like to live and by what methods we ought to seek for truth.