Yesterday morning I noticed that today would be World Humanist Day, and that set me off to find out what that was about. It turns out that there is an IHEU and an AHA, which is different from the AEU, and there was a local meeting of the Ethical Society of Asheville yesterday!
I have wondered, especially recently with all of the noise about the “Mojave Cross,” what was up with atheists being so militant about other people putting up crosses. (I have since learned that atheists were joined by other non-Christian groups in seeking removal of the cross.) I don’t normally think of myself as an atheist possibly because I don’t think of myself in a religious context, but crosses don’t offend me. While volunteering at Arlington West, we would set out crosses to represent troops killed in Bush’s Global War on Terror with a smattering of Stars of David or crescents, and I did flash back to my aggravation that we were required to attend services in boot camp but the crosses didn’t offend me; they were memorials.
I guess I didn’t expect there to be so much competitive business practice among atheists: membership, merchandising, advertising, lobbying. The IHEU message board has a discussion of whether or not their logo of a “Happy Human” should represent a more slender human. And the AEU refer to themselves as a religion! Who knew!?!
I have an idea of who I am and how that compares with who I want to be. I had an idea of finding a group of similarly minded folks to share some time with – and there was another Red Crosser there – but a humanist church isn’t interesting to me. So far it looks like continuing to work with volunteer organizations (while avoiding the organization leadership for the most part) is going to be the way to go.
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Mind you, there are people from all of these humanist organizations, and all religions, out there doing good work. It’s just that, as I’m always saying, at some point with any organization it becomes all about the organization and I’m not into that. I thought maybe that made me a humanist.
(Actually I don’t like the ‘sound’ of “humanist.” It sounds proprietary and disrespectful of all other life.)
(The “slender logo” thing irritated me because vanity irritates me and, besides, it was World Refugee Day.)
