Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists and other non-believers.

I have a question (and for the sake of not provoking HeatheNZ into making another drive-by screed at me about Atheism not being a belief system, I won?t include it here, so here goes).

How do ?Humanists? qualify as ?non-believers??

Thanks for the accommodation.

To answer your question (or not) I guess Humanists do not believe in gods. I don’t really know if that’s true – but the implication of your quote would suggest so.

A little research perhaps…

The following from Wikipedia would indicate that Humanists are indeed non-theistic, however is sounds like more of a secular ethos rather than one that deals with theistic belief per se.

I think you have a case for mis-categorization.

Humanism is a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience and superstition. This article uses the words Humanism and Humanist (with a capital ‘H’) and no adjective such as “secular”[1] to refer to the life stance and its adherents, and humanism (with a small ‘h’) to refer to other related movements or philosophies. While this convention is not universal among all Humanists, it is used by a significant number of them, and for purposes of this article, helps distinguish between Humanism as a life stance and other forms of humanism.

Humanism has appeal to agnostics, atheists, empiricists, freethinkers, rationalists, and scientific skeptics. Humanism is non-theistic and secular.

Sorry, don?t know what happened to my first attempt at posting this.

Anyway,