But the damn test stops giving me choices after two answers and even allowing all on the page, it won't go. I'm not going to log into the site, if that's what it wants. So I can't get an test result. This is what I was taught at my commie high school:
A Humanist Manifesto, also known as Humanist Manifesto I to distinguish it from later Humanist Manifestos in the series, was written in 1933 primarily by Raymond Bragg and published with 34 signers. Unlike the later manifestos, this first talks of a new religion and refers to humanism as a religious movement meant to transcend and replace previous, deity-based systems. Nevertheless, it is careful not to express a creed or dogma. The document outlines fifteen affirmations on cosmology, biological and cultural evolution, human nature, epistemology, ethics, religion, self-fulfillment, and the quest for freedom and social justice. This latter, stated in article fourteen, proved to be the most controversial, even among humanists, in its opposition to "acquisitive and profit-motivated society" and its call for an egalitarian world community based on voluntary mutual cooperation. The document's release was reported by the mainstream media on May 1, simultaneous with its publication in the May/June 1933 issue of the New Humanist.
Two manifestos followed: Humanist Manifesto II in 1973 and Humanism and Its Aspirations in 2003.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist_Manifesto_I
I'm going to read the later versions, as this was the older, more liberal version. The part where it says '...and the quest for freedom and social justice. This latter, stated in article fourteen, proved to be the most controversial, even among humanists, in its opposition to "acquisitive and profit-motivated society" and its call for an egalitarian world community based on voluntary mutual cooperation...' has definitely defined my development politically all my life.
I grew up in a family of different faiths if one calls Unitarian, Lutheran, Methodist, atheist, Baptist and ex-communicated (because of divorces) Catholics. All firm secularists. In practice, none of them practiced religion, it was considered for children and that one would grow up out of it. At that time my father handed me the books of Erich Fromme who had Marxist leanings in his approach to life, human society and psychology, as well as Margaret Meade and other such writers of those days. I gave attention to JFK and all the civil rights movements growing up and worked in them, despite a number of failures that took years.
Then watched with disgust at what I call the great leap backwards as reactionaries came to power in the era of Reagan by trading in on religious fears of the public and began their revisionist American history. It's been downhill with scant attention paid to what I deem important until recently.
Apparently my introduction to humanism was not in pace with capitalist America. And as such, may have turned me into a foolish idealist or a flake by some At any rate, it's a little too late for me to turn back now, so I go forth still learning.
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