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You may never have heard of Humanlight, but for a growing number of non-religious Humanists it offers a way to celebrate a different kind of faith - faith in the human spirit.
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6 responses // Humanlight

  • Wa wa wa. Human Light sucks. What a bunch of idiots. I am not Christian and I like Christmas. Screw humanlight. There is nothing wrong with the Christian right boycotting businesses. Who cares! By the way there is no way in hell that the US is 85% Christian.

    The video was put together well.
    UnrulyAdam
  • There's more evidence that Jesus Christ existed then anyone you personaly know.
    Bobd
  • Nicely produced vido, very informative. There is no "war on Christmas" or persecution of those poor, poor Christians. What a crock. No one is trying to take away your holiday.

    But there are approximately 30 million Americas who are not Christian. For us, celebrating Christmas isn't an important part of our culture. We aren't trying to change you, so leave us alone!

    The winter holiday season has its roots not in the birth of a mythical god named Jesus (who, if he existed at all -- and there is very little hard evidence for this -- was no more born on December 25th than Mithra was) but in the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The celebration predates Christianity by many millenia. Christmas was piggybacked onto the pagans' celebration of the return of the sun and longer days. The real reason for the season is the lack or and return of light, hence the lighting the tree, burning the yule log (another pagan tradition), lighting Hannukah candles, and so on.

    So lighten up! In fact, HumanLighten up!
    PhxHumanist
  • I am an atheist and am glad that we now have a "holiday" so that we can work to build a more connected community.

    I feel sorry for those who feel threatened by Human Light. I hope that one day they will be open to the viewpoints of others and accept the truth that not everyone believes as they do.

    Happy Human Light!
    diagoras
  • I am an active humanist in LA, and I knew about HumanLight a little in 2004, but really took it much more seriously in 2005. Growing up Jewish in the U.S., I had already had lots of experience in feeling otherness, the emphasis on Xmas with all the lights and shopping and movies made me feel pretty uncomfortable. Trying to make Hanukkah more like Christmas was pitiful. Authentic Hanukkah is about a Jewish military victory, not about Santa Claus and gifts and sentimental movies.
    What changed this past year was viewing The God Who Wasn't There, a film that reviews what is known about the historic development of Christianity, and the clearly invented and selectively practiced observance surrounding the mythology of Jesus.
    www.thegodmovie.com
    This year, since I think there are no rules, I observed HumanLight by passing out gifts to my friends, mostly little political buttons -- and wishing everyone Happy HumanLight with a big smile. If anyone asked, I said it is the humanists' winter holiday, and that humanists like to have fun, too.
    I attended a Christmas party, and had fun; I went to my daughter's house for latkes and homemade borscht, and had fun.
    What else matters? Life is short -- I try to enjoy what I can.
    WendyH
  • "We are more Christian than Israel is Jewish"...
    Minority "has to learn to deal with the rights of majority"...

    So who is rewriting history here?

    "... The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion".

    This has got be from one of those "secular supremacists", right? No, it was written back in 1797, in the Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11.
    It was approved by the US Senate and signed by the President John Adams.

    And then, of course, there is this pesky piece of paper in the National Archives called Constitution, which not only doesn't mention God or Christianity, but, on the contrary, promotes freedom and equality for all people.

    I was born in the Soviet Union, where the government was saying much of the same things about majority, it's just that the majority in that case were Communists. In fact, this is why I came to the United States - "nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Yes, that was from Abraham Lincoln.

    So this is what our Founding Fathers meant: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Humanists - equal.

    Let's keep it that way.

    P.S.: Happy Humanlight!
    LevP

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