I'm a secular humanist.
Sep. 2nd, 2007 03:31 pmIn honour of tomorrow's first morality lessons of the new school year1 I can declare to yee all that what I teach is secular humanism according to American standards. I even did a test2 and that was the result, with Unitarian Universalism coming in second. I can even find myself in Unitarian Universalism. Jon Cogburn describes the basic principles of the Unitarian Universalists, and they have a lot in common with the basic principles I use in my classes. He even cites the same prejudices of the believing folk: How can you have a morality without dogmas? You can. You can even have a morality without faith in a supernatural being. That is the ultimate difference between my world view and Jon Cogburn's: I don't believe in a deity, and I don't feel the need to be part of a community that performs rituals.
Two interesting things occured in my results, though: both nontheism and Roman Catholicism ended pretty low in my ranking. The first one because a moral view is much more important for me than the fact I don't believe in a god, and in case of Roman Catholicism I don't seem to have that much in common with the religion I grew up with. I do think Flemish Catholicism, isn't as Roman as the pope would like it.
1Actualy I don't have to teach yet tomorrow. It's the first day of school for heaven's sake. Let the kids get into the mood first.
2Yes, I'm aware that link isn't working for you at the moment. Maybe try again tomorrow. It seems to work fine at the moment (4:04pm).
Two interesting things occured in my results, though: both nontheism and Roman Catholicism ended pretty low in my ranking. The first one because a moral view is much more important for me than the fact I don't believe in a god, and in case of Roman Catholicism I don't seem to have that much in common with the religion I grew up with. I do think Flemish Catholicism, isn't as Roman as the pope would like it.
1Actualy I don't have to teach yet tomorrow. It's the first day of school for heaven's sake. Let the kids get into the mood first.
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