{"id":262,"date":"2013-06-21T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T08:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/?p=262"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T08:54:18","slug":"world-humanist-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/world-humanist-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Humanist Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notwithstanding the occasional flare-ups (okay, regular wars then, as captured by the video below) between various elements of the secular, skeptic and atheist communities, it&#8217;s important to focus on what we have in common &#8211; partly for aspirational reasons, and partly for inspirational reasons.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dan Cardamon - Three years after Elevatorgate\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DYw-HjKrmY4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For aspirational reasons, in that as far as I can tell, some of the conflicts we&#8217;ve seen since ElevatorGate are the result of a failure to uphold a humanist ethos. I say this because they are failures of basic compassion for the feelings of others, or sacrificing a charitable outlook when dealing with interlocutors, or forgetting that regardless of how correct you think you might be, tolerance of opposing viewpoints is useful even if only as a first step to presenting an argument for the wrongness of those viewpoints. As I&#8217;ve <a title=\"Chris Stedman\u2019s \u201cFaitheist\u201d \u2013 a review\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/chris-stedmans-faitheist-a-review\/\">said before<\/a>, you&#8217;re not going to change people&#8217;s minds if they&#8217;re not listening to you.<\/p>\n<p>The inspirational reasons? Humanists all over the world are working hard, and often effectively, at demonstrating that god(s) aren&#8217;t a pre-requisite for a fulfilled and happy existence, and that progress can be made to eliminate religion-motivated obstructions to freedom, peace and prosperity. The IHEU General Assembly, recently held in Romania, presented many examples of these struggles and successes, and I encourage you to read about them in this <a title=\"IHEU General Assembly\" href=\"http:\/\/iheu.org\/story\/report-first-ever-iheu-general-assembly-eastern-europe\" target=\"_blank\">report on the first ever IHEU general assembly to be held in Eastern Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Humanist Day &#8211; let&#8217;s remember to keep Humanist values in mind, and work towards them where and when we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[49,178],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-iheu","tag-world-humanist-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}