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Next Meeting:
August 5,2008: Martha Knox
Liberal Christianity: Is there a silent majority of Christians whose
worldview is more similar to humanism than fundamentalism?
Please join us on
Tuesday, August 5
at
7:00 PM
at the Ludington Library (5 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA
19010) for a presentation by
Martha Knox,
Humanist Celebrant, Director of the Humanist Association of Greater
Philadelphia (HAGP) and Coordinator of the Greater Philadelphia
Coalition of Reason (PhillyCOR). Knox has been a board member of the
Secular Student Alliance and counselor for Camp Quest, and has ten
years of leadership and volunteer experience in the freethought
movement.
Note: This is
also a drop off time and location for the
PhillyCoR Food and Fund Drive. Please contribute!
Details:
The Age of Enlightenment brought forth new attitudes about the
natural world, morality, and the meaning of life. It inspired
secular government, religious freedom, and humanistic ethics. Today,
a steady increase in atheism and agnosticism has been documented
throughout the modern world. What has largely gone unmentioned is
how Enlightenment has and continues to alter many Christian
institutions and individual believers. Today's fundamentalists
continue to lash out against modern society with increasing fervor
and irrationality, but what about the silent majority of
non-fundamentalists who check "Christian" on religious surveys, or
clergy and theologians who reject the notions of a divine Jesus and
a personal God? How similar to freethinkers are the most
theologically liberal Christians?
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