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What is Humanism? What percentage of the American Media is owned by people that follow Secular Humanism and for how long?

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coltech88 | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I am not answering the second question, but here is a background on where humanism started and where it is today.

Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual and cultural movement which began in Florence, Italy, in the last decades of the fourteenth century and lasted through the 16th century.

Renaissance humanism was a reaction to Catholic scholasticism which had dominated the universities of Italy, and later Oxford and Paris, and whose methodology was derived from Thomas Aquinas.

The humanist emphasis on the value and importance of the individual was not necessarily a total rejection of religion. According to historians such as Nicholas Terpstra, the Renaissance was very much characterized with activities of lay religious co-fraternities with a more internalized kind of religiosity, and it influenced the Protestant Reformation, which rejected the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church and declared that every individual could stand directly before God.

Prominent scholars of the period included the Dutch theologian Erasmus, the English author Thomas More, the French writer Francois Rabelais, the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, and the Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

The term "humanism" itself was coined after the renaissance humanism movment, in 1808, by German educator F.J. Niethammer to describe a program of study distinct from science and engineering; but in the fifteenth century, the term "umanista," or "humanist," was current, meaning a student of human affairs or human nature.

The earliest forerunner of contemporary chartered humanist organizations was the Humanistic Religious Association formed in 1853 in London. This early group was democratically organized, with male and female members participating in the election of the leadership and promoted knowledge of the sciences, philosophy, and the arts. Issues they advocated included women’s rights, access to birth control, civil divorce laws, and an end to capital punishment.

Secular humanism rejects theistic religious belief on the grounds that supernatural beliefs cannot be supported rationally. Secular humanists generally believe that successful ethical, political, and social organization can be accomplished through the use of reason or other faculties of man. Many theorists of modern humanist organizations such as American Humanist Association hold this perspective.

Religious humanism argues that God is the source of human values. For human beings created in the image of God, the values of humanism express human beings' God-given nature. Hence, while secular humanism is antithetical to theism, religious humanism and theism are complementary. As the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr said, a "new synthesis" of Renaissance and Reformation is called for.

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albanian | 2 years, 9 months ago
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Most American media is publicly owned, which means countless stockholders. Of those that are privately owned, the owners have no obligation to reveal their religion and no one tries to keep track of it. This question sounds like a snippet from some conservative radio comment. If you are interested in Secular Humanism, or wonder if that's what you believe, try www.beliefnet.com which has a quick quiz to help you identify your beliefs, and plenty of information from each point of view.

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yaz20100 | 2 years, 9 months ago
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humanists are people who care about other humans. they believe in good and happyness of all humankind!

I would guess the percentage of the world's media owned by such people is 0%.

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