(July 31, 2015 at 12:14 pm)el_presidente357 Wrote: Personally, I have a general impression that there's more community and culture among self-described humanists. Humanism (whether you view it as a philosophy or religion) strikes me as more geared toward belief/values in practice versus atheism, which is simply the belief that there is no God. I prefer to describe myself as a humanist.
Somehow that reminds me of the complaints I have read at this site (you can search for threads if you want, but I don't particularly recommend it) about Atheism+ (aka Atheism Plus), because they are not just atheists, but add more stuff to that idea. One would think that the "+" would be enough to tell people that something is being added, but several people have wanted atheism to be without anything added.
Anyway, I agree with you, that humanism is about more than mere atheism, and need not even include atheism, depending on the type of humanism under discussion.
Also, just to help you avoid silly complaints, around here, usually, people use the term "atheism" in the sense of weak atheism rather than strong atheism. The links are more thorough, but basically most people here use the term "atheism" as the lack of belief in any god, rather than the positive belief that there is no god. In English, of course, both meanings are common and correct, but it is good to distinguish between those two separate concepts.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
