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Secular humanism

Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, mysticism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision-making.

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related to Further reading · 52
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related to Terminology · 36
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related to Hatch amendment · 19
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related to Controversy · 18
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related to Ethics and relationship to religious belief · 14
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related to Council for Secular Humanism · 11
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related to Legal mentions in the United States · 6
Secular humanism → Competition, Creeds, Leo Pfeffer, The, United States, US
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Secular humanism → continually adapting search for truth, philosophy, religion has been seized upon by religious opponents of the teaching of evolution, strongly held viewpoint that ideology

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the freethinkersinstance ofhumanism emerged from vibrant non-religious movements of the 18th and 19th centuries0.80text

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