Finally, a humanist organization I can get behind
I finally found a humanist organization I want to participate in. Too many humanist organizations I have seen are radicals; they spend all their time complaining about the current politics and religions and not enough time promoting humanism.
Humanist organizations need to concentrate on making humanism more visible and more viable to the general population. This should include things like public speaking, books, articles, etc. as well as promoting ideas that replace some of the valuable aspects of religion (rites, traditions, social interaction, etc.)
The Boulder International Humanist Institute seems to be much more geared to teaching and evangelizing humanism than whining. They have a great speaker series (recently they hosted Sam Harris, author of “The End of Faith”, which was a great success).
I met with the founder (Gordon Gamm) last week and was very impressed.
Of course their web site is really crude, but that is something I can help with…
Sean
