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Secular Humanism does not charge, "God does not exist." Some secular humanists may hold that position but it's not the general position of the philosophy as a whole. Secular Humanism is compatible with atheism, agnosticism, rationalism, and skepticism in relation to religion and god. Also, human-supremecy is not a tenet of Secular Humanism. The Council for Secular Humanism has gone on record as saying, "We are far too realistic to worship humanity."
You might find these resources helpful:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index...ge=declaration
[url]http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/cherry_18_1.01.html[/url
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Thanks for the article it helped explain a lot of it, but I still think it contradicts what you just said that Humanism does not charge that a god does not exist. From reading the articles, it seems that the non-existence of a god is more black and white in the Humanism views than it would be in agnostic views. Would it be fair then to say that views of agnostics, atheists, rationalists, and skeptics are interchangeable? Or is it interchangeable only to a certain degree? I'm finding a lot of gray areas in the definitions of these philosophies.
Sorry guys if I'm asking a lot of questions. I'm just trying to understand it more. I'm new to this as only a few years ago I devoted my life to Christianity, but that was only because I grew up in it. It wasn't till I was older when i started to question their teachings and started experimenting other religions by going to their church or temple. Even after doing that I still didn't see it logical to put all my faith in a prophet or god that man today can't even prove existed. It was not logical for me to do things just because the bible said so. After all, the bible was written by man. But at the same time I haven't tottaly ruled out the possiblity of their existence. So now here I am...and the only concept that I could find to describe my views was agnosticism.