The American Humanist Association is starting a new campaign to increase awareness of reasonable values: Consider Humanism. They have adds that contrast Christian sentiments with humanist ideals, like this one:
Probably too shrill and militant, huh? I swear, I heard the horses whinny and stampede at that voice, and I don't know how I'm going to clean up all the saliva and blood splattered all over the inside of my video display after playing that.
Actually, I think it strikes a nice balance of calmly pointing out the ugliness of religious dogma, while also presenting the positive ideas that drive freethought. They are looking for donations — this is not cheap — to get the ads on TV stations, and they also have some nice printable versions.
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Humanists, humanists, humanists. Sunday's Atheists Talk radio is all about secular humanism and the big AHA meeting in June. Tune in at 9am Central time.
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Australia has taken an interesting step forward: they're going to allow instruction in humanism in their schools, apparently in place of traditional religion classes.
Scott Lohman will be talking to Jen Hancock, the author of Handy Humanism Handbook.
Jen blogs at Happiness Through Humanism. She is an author, blogger and humanist activist. Her website is at Jen-Hancock.com. Scott is the president of the Humanists of Minnesota.