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What is your opinion of the label "Secular Humanist"?

Asked by Rsam (586points) July 12th, 2009

i tend to think this self-categorization is highly unnecessary and only playing into the religionist’s claims that non-religionists (atheist, non-believers, whathaveyou) are in fact themselves a sort of religion with their own belief system, and thus essentially the same as the religionist.

for myself, i am plainly atheist and as part of my atheism tend to reject any and all “systems” of (un)belief under the principal that i have no need for such a “system”—-i like being able to determine my mores on my own, without “guidance” from an organized force.

So, if you use the SH term i’d ask “why do you think its even necessary, if essentially you are just a non-religionists?; If asked ‘what are you’, couldnt you just as well say, ‘im not anything – i just like life’”?

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