Humanist chaplains head to the UK
Posted: January 25, 2010.
Print: The Guardian
excerpts:
...There are only three humanist university chaplains in the US – at Harvard, Rutgers and Adelphi. Stanford and Columbia have had them in the past, but the posts are currently vacant and Tufts is campaigning for one.
...The BHA now recognises there is a latent demand for non-religious chaplaincy services – particularly in environments such as hospitals, prisons and education institutions. “These services are quantifiably different from those received through psychotherapy, counselling and mentoring,” says Copson, “and we believe they should be available for those with an atheistic world view.”
...While some chaplaincies are funded by a sponsoring religious organisation, others receive help from public sources. But students are going to have to get a great deal more demanding before universities start providing humanist chaplains as a matter of course, for not even potential colleagues are wholly persuaded of the benefits. Again, it seems to be largely a matter of perception – the idea of atheists getting involved in areas deemed to belong to the spiritual.
who says atheism is not a religion.
go for it.
this proves my point that religiion has many faces including atheism.
now the question becomes who or what is the atheist god.
hint: their intellect with materialism running a close second and scientism taking up the third spot.
sorry my arrogance but it is so easy to see how atheism has turned into a religion where theory is taught as fact.
kind of like the bible is taught as fact.
neither side gives an inch but the religious can punt the atheists cannot punt.
one unexplained paranormal phenomenon and the materialist paradigm comes crashing down.
the religious just state well god’s time is different so it took billions of our years it only took god six days god’s time. ie punt.
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