Secular humanism is not a religion, but a way of thinking and living and its aim is for you personally to bring out the best in yourself and other people so that you can live a happy life. Secular humanists also believe that we personally are in charge of and are responsible for what happens in our own lives and we must not rely on a God to help us or tell us what to do. They also believe in individual freedom and believe that their first responsibility is not to god, nor to our neighbour, but to ourselves. For these reasons they do not believe in god or in the supernatural.

Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Christianity had provided the people of Europe with the basis of their beliefs and values. It told them everything that they needed to know about the purpose and meaning of life. Charles Darwin was one of the first scientists to openly oppose Christianity with his book ‘The origin of man’ which describes how humans have descended from the apes and so opposes genesis where the creation of the world is described as being conducted by god in seven days. Humanism has been formed through the knowledge tha

t much of what is described of in the bible is scientifically impossible but through the need, people have to follow a set of beliefs, which include caring for other people. Then came along humanism and the scientific method which both say that there is no such thing as god.

“Education is thus a most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism” Bert Thompson, Evolution and Atheism

Christians are finding it an increasing problem to keep the religion alive in their children as when their children are at school a variety of religions are now studied in religious education and educations such as sciences are taught in a secular way saying that it has been proved that there is no such thing as god.

“Secular humanists say that the non-existence of god is a strong possibility that grows ever stronger with the advance of knowledge and that the existence of god is a remote possibility which becomes ever more remote with the advance of knowledge. It makes more sense to base life on strong probabilities rather than on remote possibilities.” From the essentials of Humanism website.

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