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The Humanist Fellowship of San Diego thanks the Chapter Assembly of the national organization, the American Humanist Association, for a grant which originally made this site possible.
We're Humanists. We say - people are what matters most.
We don't know anything in the universe that matters more to humans than human well-being. Do you?
The Humanist Fellowship of San Diego is proudly a chapter of the American Humanist Association, the original and largest of the nationwide Humanist organizations, founded 1941, incorporated as an Illinois non-profit in 1943, represented in San Diego by a succession of chapters since September 1954.
Since 1982, the Humanist Fellowship of San Diego has presented a presence of organized American Humanism in this community, representing Humanism as it is now expressed in Humanist Manifesto 3. It is a non-profit organization, and holds an IRS 501(c)(3) tax exemption, not religious but educational.
The most recent Humanist Manifesto (2003) is posted on this site. Do you agree with what it says? Read it and see!
Is Humanism religious? Anti-religious? Secular? None of the above? All of them? Well, Humanism isn't just a derivative of anything else. It's a new worldview, enjoying elements of all those.
Humanism is a new worldview, it's a new lifestance, developed over about 70 years by a series of thoughtful people who respect the findings of science and do not fear probing critical inquiry. They are many of the best thinkers of Western civilization.
Organized Humanism has won the respect and allegiance of many able people of good will, as well as the dismay and horror of those who cling in desperation to the fading remnants of older systems of belief, their eyes averted in fear from advances in thought and understanding.
Humanism has no creed. It is not a set of conclusions or a destination. Humanism is a pathway, a method for human beings to discover values through experience. Consequently, Humanists often disagree with each other about the results of inquiry - but they enjoy confidence in you and your humanness - not condemning you as "born in sin" needing "salvation" but confident that your free mind, compassionate heart, and a shared love of goodness, truth and beauty, will lead you to a full, honest, satisfying life on the path alongside others - the Humanists.
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