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Originally Posted by flamesfever
Iowa, it seems that the definition of a secular humanist is somewhat vague at times. In your definition do you allow for a belief in a deity?
Sorry you had to repeat yourself. I read back through the thread and discovered that you had indeed covered the subject.
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No worries--these threads get long sometimes!
I do kind of allow for a belief in a deity--since most of the framers were in one way or another "deists"--and deism is of course not exactly atheism, though it is in its pure form a rejection of "revelatory religion," putting in its place a spiritualism that derives from the rational and the experiential. And in a sense, I guess what I mean is not that the framers WERE secular humanists--but that they were using secular humanist principles--which is an admittedly fine but (I think) important distinction.