9 Things You Should Know About Secular Humanism
by Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition:
Harvard University’s organization of chaplains has elected as its next president an atheist and secular humanist named Greg Epstein. Along with his role as chief chaplain, Epstein also serves as the humanist chaplain at Harvard and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Epstein was ordained as a humanist rabbi through the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism.
Here are nine things you should know about secular humanism.
1. The phrase ‘secular humanism’ was coined by Christians.
Use of the phrase is believed to have started in the 1930s by Anglican priests. William Temple, the Archbishop of Canterbury, warned in 1943 that Christian tradition was “in danger of being undermined by a ‘Secular Humanism’ which hoped to retain Christian values without Christian faith.” By the 1960s, the term had been embraced by humanists who considered themselves secular. Today, most groups who align with the tenets of this view have dropped the secular and refer to themselves merely as humanists.
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