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Originally Posted by Clarkey
I haven't read that pamphlet yet, I'll have to pick it up.
Cheese was railing off the dogmatic humanist commandments a few months ago, it sounded pretty religious to me.
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A great deal of humanist and christian philosophy is the same. Some people are both Christians and humanists.
Here for example is a Declaration of Humanist Principles:
http://www.calgaryhumanist.ca/declaration.html
I think most people would agree with all the statements, except for 3 and 10.
III. Humanists advocate the use of the scientific method, both as a guide to distinguish fact from fiction and to help develop beneficial and creative uses of science and technology.
X. A fundamental principle of humanism is the rejection of beliefs held in absence of verifiable evidence, such as beliefs based solely on dogma, revelation, mysticism or appeals to the supernatural.