Roughly speaking, the word humanist has come to mean someone who:

  • Trusts to the scientific method when it comes to understanding how the universe works and rejects the idea of the supernatural (and is therefore an atheist or agnostic).
  • Makes their ethical decisions based on reason, empathy, and a concern for human beings, other sentient animals, and the planet we inhabit.
  • Believes that, in the absence of an afterlife and any discernible purpose to the universe, human beings can act to give their own lives meaning by seeking happiness in this life and helping others to do the same.

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Humanism is older by nearly a thousand years than Christianity… and older by more than a thousand years than Islam. It is richer and more profound than either, and it is as fresh now as it was in its beginnings.

Professor AC Grayling, The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism (2015)

“We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us” 🤗

Jo Cox MP and humanist, Hansard (2015)