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unusual facts about secular humanism



Fellowship of Humanity v. County of Alameda

This case was cited by Justice Hugo Black in the decision for Torcaso v. Watkins, in an obiter dictum listing "secular humanism" as being among "religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God."

Irreligion by country

Irreligion, which may include atheism, agnosticism, ignosticism, antireligion, skepticism, freethought, antitheism, apatheism, non-belief, secular humanism, and deism, varies in the different countries around the world.

Shuna Scott Sendall

Sendall married her childhood sweetheart, Iain Steel, at Inveroykel in a Humanist wedding ceremony in 2006.

William Brevard Hand

Hand received national attention when he ruled for the plaintiffs in a case against the Alabama school board claiming that textbooks used in Alabama promoted secular humanism, and as such were in violation of the Establishment clause.


see also

Christian humanism

They tend to align with liberal secular humanism and one of their outspoken advocates is retired US Bishop John Shelby Spong.

The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal

In the award of the Norton Medal (endowed by Charles Phelps Norton) to Kurtz in 2001, 'The Transcendental Temptation' was noted, amongst Kurtz's other contributions to secular humanism, as a seminal work on the topic.