The shared center — held across the tradition
This life is the only one, and it is enough to be getting on with.
No supervision, no rescue, no second attempt. Humanists treat this as the ground of the ethics rather than a loss to be managed.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Whether humanism is a religion.
The 1933 Manifesto said yes, thirteen times over. The 2003 version drops the word. US courts have said yes for First Amendment purposes, which humanists find useful and irritating in roughly equal measure.
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