Word: humanisme
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It was a week for unburning the books. In two major cases just two days apart, Fundamentalist Christians were dismayed to see federal appeals courts throw out earlier rulings against public school textbooks. As a result, pupils returning to reading classes in Hawkins County, Tenn., can still be required to...
The Alabama case, which also involved a group of Fundamentalist parents as plaintiffs, hinged upon a different provision of the First Amendment, the establishment clause, which undergirds church and state separation. In March, Federal Judge W. Brevard Hand ruled that 44 history, social studies and home economics books used throughout...
In unanimously overturning Hand's decision, the three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta sidestepped the issue of whether secular humanism is a religion. Even assuming that it were a religion, wrote Appellate Judge Frank Johnson Jr., the plaintiffs had failed to show that the books...
It would be crude and misleading to say that Jefferson's ideas about building illustrate the ideas of the American Constitution. But they certainly grew from the same origin -- the secular humanism that, despite the gaudy bleatings of today's religious right, was their common moral root. Thus the calm...
The sages were not always consistent. Johnson points out that while Yahweh, God of Abraham and Moses, was physically unimaginable, Jewish humanism is centered on a vivid Old Testament injunction: "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he...