Humanism is about living ethically without the promise or fear of an afterlife. Humanism is a secular stance, and most humanists are also atheists or agnostics, yet some hold belief in a higher power. We are not against religion per se. We want to work with like-minded individuals and organizations to make Winchester a more inclusive and welcoming place for everyone.
“A humanist is someone who does the right thing even though she knows that no one is watching.”
– Dick McMahan, New York humanist, 2004
Our group meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. in the community room at the Clark County Public Library, 370 South Burns Ave. We formed our group to achieve four principal goals, which we call our “four pillars.”
- Community — to create a safe space for secular people to fellowship together, laugh and learn, and “be there” for one another
- Service — to work toward making our town more welcoming and inclusive for everyone, particularly those who don’t feel safe or comfortable in religious institutions
- Education — to learn and to teach about Humanism and its aims and goals
- Activism — to champion those whose rights are not being upheld and whose voices are not being heard, and to advocate for the separation of church and state
We also subscribe to the statement of the American Humanist Association on Humanism and Its Aspirations and the Ten Commitments of Humanism.
We are an official chapter of the American Humanist Association.
“Reason, Observation and Experience – the Holy Trinity of Science – have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll, The Gods, 1876