Greetings and Salutations!

We’re so glad you’re here!

Are you a seeker of truth? Do you want the things you believe in to be true? Are you willing to challenge the status quo and your most personal beliefs in the spirit of finding the truth? Doesn’t a true purpose start on a foundation of truth? And, the methods that teach us how to think can help get us there.

Belief in something does not justify an assertion of knowledge of it. In this, we oppose foundationalism, which states that there are basic positions that are self-justified or beyond justification, without reference to others.

Which in today’s modern society is preposterous!

Let’s get a few things out in the open…

We promote humanity. Not just part of humanity, all of us. We don’t subscribe to any belief, idea, or representation that excludes others in the form of condemnation, especially without concrete evidence to support affecting others.
Here are a few quick bullet points:

• Human beings are capable of being ethical and moral without religion, belief in a deity, or subscribing to a set of rules without demonstrating their positive effect.
• Religion, conspiracies, and superstitions have done much harm prohibiting the growth and interdependence of the human experience.
• Reason, demonstrable evidence, and compassion for each other in all matters are the highest priority.
• Our education system must include critical thinking skills that give children the opportunity to make important decisions as they grow, rather than to be subject to forced indoctrination by superstitious beliefs.
• Lawmakers and politicians that promote a secular government, support free markets, free trade, limited government, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), capitalism, democracy, secularism, gender equality, racial equality, internationalism, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and freedom from religion are welcome and encouraged.
• Being open-minded and willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.
• Striving to understand what is most likely to be accurate based on the available evidence, not to believe what you wish or want to be true.
• Scientific methods are the most reliable way of understanding the natural world. And proof is required for the “supernatural.”
• Every person has the right to control their own body.
• Be mindful of the consequences of all your actions and recognize that you must take responsibility for them.
• Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective.
• We have the responsibility to consider others, including future generations.
• There is no one right way to live.
• Leave the world a better place than you found it.

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. How dismal it is to see present-day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”

Kurt Vonnegut & Christopher Hitchens