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To: Gut Trader who wrote (691716)	7/12/2005 8:50:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Well, they DO seem to be officially atheistic... and they DO seem to hold beliefs in things that cannot (indeed, may never) be knowable, that's 'faith' by anyone's definition... so 'Secular Humanism' would indeed seem to be a melding of faith in an absence of God into a sort of religion. (Though they do seem to leave themselves a bit of 'wiggle room' with stuff like this: "...Obviously humanism does not deny the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered, but it does insist that the way to determine the existence and value of any and all realities is by means of intelligent inquiry and by the assessment of their relations to human needs.") Seems a bit human-centered to me (but then, aren't nearly all religions?)... but who's to say these boys (34 whole guys back in 1973... :) don't have the God-given right to start a cult along with everyone else? History (indeed, the daily headlines also) is full of 'em. But... they got a 'Manifesto' and they say they believe in things sight-unseen and currently unproveable so, I guess they've got a religion. Thanks for the links, but I'm not going to worry too much about them until they get more 'churches' in my neighborhood then the followers of the Bab, or Ahura Mazda, or the Voodoo priests have though....