HUMANISM!!!

By Robyn E Blumner. Hello!

If you ask twenty humanists to define humanism, you’ll probably get twenty different definitions. There is no humanist Bible, no humanist catechism, not even a humanist’s rules of order (if only). But I don’t think it’s too much of a leap to say that a humanist is someone who works to make the world a better, freer, healthier place for all the humans living in it, which we accomplish through science, reason, secularism, and compassion.

We can’t wish for some mysterious outside force to do this for us; neither can we turn inward and expect the world to improve itself on its own with no effort on our part. We have to be willing to put in the work in the real world. A shining example of humanism in action comes from George Ongere, executive director of CFI Kenya. In some parts of Africa, children are victims of superstitions about witchcraft and sorcery, leaving many of them abandoned by their families. CFI Kenya established the Humanist Orphans Center to care for these vulnerable kids.

Getting vaccinated and following public health guidelines around COVID-19 are humanist actions, because they are about more than keeping yourself from getting sick. We get the shots, we put on the masks, and we keep our distance to protect everyone else. Now that vaccines have been approved for kids between twelve and fifteen, we want to make sure they can choose to protect themselves and their communities, even if their parents are anti-vaccine.

Vaccine opponents make a lot of noise about their freedoms being infringed upon, claiming the right to serve as a perpetual vector for infection. Folks in the anti-vaccine crowd have prioritized their own notions of inconvenience, fear based on misinformation, and conjured persecution over the health and safety of everyone else. There are those who prefer to wish the pandemic away by asking God to solve their problems for them. The religious Right was up in arms last week over President Biden’s insufficiently theistic National Day of Prayer proclamation, illustrating the impotency of relying on “thoughts and prayers.” Admirers of the Great Agnostic, Robert Green Ingersoll, have generously given to ensure that the legacy of this freethought pioneer will endure through the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. It is not a house of worship, but a humble home where we can evoke the memory of the great man who said, “The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.” Now that’s humanism. Robyn E. Blumner, CEO and President, Center for Inquiry Executive Director, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science.

 

En América Latina como nunca  antes la práctica del Feminicidio es alarmante!!! las fotos nos cuentan, es una realidad de miedo!!! Esto es Mexico 8 de Marzo 2021.

 

Tratado de Ateología | Por Darío Sztajnszrajber

 

 La Comisión de Mujeres de la Cámara comenzará el próximo miércoles 13 de enero la discusión del proyecto de ley, presentado en el 2018, que despenaliza el aborto dentro de las primeras 14 semanas. Ya fue ley en Argentina y ahora la discusión se retoma en Chile.

Atención!", anunciaba en un tuit Constanza Valdés Contreras, miembra de Abogadas Feministas de Chile.

La noticia es una gran celebración tras el logro alcanzado en Argentina. La abogada Camila Maturana, de la Corporación Humanas, la organización feminista es quien presentó la propuesta de despenalización del aborto hasta la semana 14. Después de dos años, lograron que se llame a la discusión, explican en el portal Latfem, que dialogó con la especialsta.

En Argentina hay ley para todos los cuerpos gestantes. Ahora, que sea del otro lado de la cordillera!

 

Emergentes.

 

 

ARGENTINA Y AHORA CHILE!!!

 

 

 

 

September 16, 2020 

 By : Robyn E Blumner

 Hello! Over the past couple weeks, we have seen clearly the devastating results of the denial and obfuscation of science, as climate change exacerbates disastrous wildfires on the West Coast, and COVID-19 deaths in the United States approach 200,000. In both cases, the acceptance of science and reality, much earlier on, could have prevented much needless suffering and destruction.

 The proliferation of fake coronavirus cures makes clear that now is the time for the wholesale rejection of pseudoscientific medicine of all stripes, but unfortunately some megaretailers don’t agree. We have new developments this week on our ongoing legal battle with Walmart over their deceptive hawking of homeopathic fake medicine.

 What a breath of fresh air it is to hear from someone like Dr. Seema Yasmin, the latest speaker for our Skeptical Inquirer Presents online series. This week we’ll get some refreshing doses of reality as she helps us navigate the tsunami of “viral B.S.” in health and medicine.

 Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has suffered a defeat in her latest attempt to siphon public funds to private religious schools through COVID-19 relief measures, which is just one part of a battle we are deeply invested in winning. Meanwhile, parents who have turned to homeschooling during the pandemic are very often finding that the resources available to them are steeped in conservative Christian teachings. We have some answers to that too

We’ll also get a look at the historical factors that led Bangladesh to become a place where religious doubt can be met with state persecution or vigilante violence. We’re doing what we can to help secular dissidents who are fighting every day for their most fundamental human rights.

 Amid all this confusion and crisis, science has just offered up a mind-blowing possibility: the planet Venus, the super-heated “morning star,” might actually harbor some form of life.Even more remarkably, it’s a possibility once posited by one great mind closely connected to our organization fifty-three years ago to this very day.

 Robyn E. Blumner, 

CEO and President, Center for Inquiry Executive Director, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science

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Newsletter
June 10, 2020

Hello!
A global exercise of the fundamental human right to free expression is too often being met with violence intended to silence that expression. We are also suffering through a worldwide pandemic, which is undermined by the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation. In both cases, we see society being poisoned by false beliefs—whether it’s justifications for racism or conspiratorial opposition to science-based disease prevention. For things to change, courageous people need to stand up and speak. And they are.

Javed Akhtar is one such person of courage. A well-known figure in India for his work in screenwriting, poetry, and social activism, he has been an outspoken proponent of reason, secularism, tolerance, and equality for all. It is fitting that at a time when these values are needed more than ever, Javed Akhtar has been honored with the 2020 Richard Dawkins Award.
Readers of this newsletter will no doubt be familiar with, and likely an admirer of, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Among the greatest communicators of science living today, this week he gives us a personal look at who he is outside the planetarium, as he opens up about his experience as an African American working to overcome the limitations he refused to accept.

There are positive developments regarding religious institutions’ efforts to undermine public health measures, and they come from what has become the unlikeliest of places: the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile, we’ll see how within two very important institutions, the Democratic and Republican parties, Christian identification is receding at a remarkable rate.

We’ll also take a closer look at the rush to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 and learn why we cannot necessarily hang all of our hopes on it. Plus, Bill Nye the Science Guy will give his perspective on the pandemic, reminding us that prevention is not just about protecting ourselves but everyone around us. Illustrating the necessity of vaccinations as only he can, Nye says, “You are not allowed to dump your garbage on my porch.”
I hope that we will come through the challenges of this highly fraught moment buoyed by people such as Javed, Neil, and Bill, who say what needs to be said in a way that makes people listen.

Robyn E. Blumner,
CEO and President, Center for Inquiry
Executive Director, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science

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