What is Humanism?

Here is the IHEU Minimum Statement On Humanism, which we very much agree;

“Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. It stands for the building of a more humane society through an ethic based on human and other natural values in the spirit of reason and free inquiry through human capabilities. It is not theistic, and it does not accept supernatural views of reality.”

IHEU Minimum Statement on Humanism’, Humanists International, General Assembly, 1996