Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!randy From: randy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Randy Chun) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Secular Humanism Message-ID: <141@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 10:30:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.141 Posted: Wed Aug 21 10:30:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:29:46 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 20 My understanding of secular humanism is that it is the belief that there is no God, that man is good, and that man is responsible for the world around him. Several religions (the old Unitarians and the present day Christian Unitarians, for example) have no quarrel with "man being basically good" and that he is responsible for the world around him. A few years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the belief in no God was itself a religion, and must be treated with the same rights and subject to the same restrictions as any other religion. Since the schools cannot teach that there is a God, they are also prohibited from teaching that there is no God. Makes sense to me. As for the "fear" that banning secular humanism from the schools will take out true science, me thinks that Mr. Rosen doust protest too much. Ken Finney @ Boeing Aerospace