@finalfantasy8911 depending on the seriousness of the injustice they would report it to the appropriate authority; management, police, local government... Or if necessary they would intervene on a personal level. No gods, clergy, goblins, spirits, fairies, etc necessary.

@finalfantasy8911 I'm somewhat taken aback by your response. Firstly, my previous message gives no indication of an assumption of the reader's beliefs. Incidently I'm glad to hear you are an atheist. At least we will not descend into exchanges about the supernatural and simplistic answers to profound questions. Humanism bases its beliefs on science to uncover the truth and ethics on our evolved consciousness and innate desire to live in peace. We try not to adhere to theological, political or other varieties of doctrines. As regards injustices perpetuated with impunity. With respect I think your question is very broad. Maybe you could give me your opinion to initiate further discussion. Thank you.

@finalfantasy8911 thank you for your lengthy reply. You have put some thought into it. However, on the issue of assuming; it appears that a lot of assumption were made due to my mentioning 'clergy... fairies...' etc. The expression 'The pot calling the kettle black' comes to mind. My approach to religions has generally been passive acceptance. But since reading 'Fighting God' by David Silverman, I am more of a firebrand aithest. If you choose to respond again I will read your message. I am, however, not going to continue exchanges because I feel you're being condescending and bordering on being rude.

I know Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account? I was stupid lost the password. I love any tips you can offer me!

@Rowen Kendall instablaster ;)

@Karter Draven Thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and Im trying it out atm. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@Karter Draven it worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy:D Thank you so much you saved my account :D

@Rowen Kendall You are welcome :D

@@jessebryant9233 You answer them first. Explain in detail each response, the thought process behind it and life experiences that influenced forming those opinions. If you're going to ask someone else to write their unabridged autobiography it is only fair you do so first.

@@jessebryant9233 No, people do not need to defend an opinion they posted 6 years ago because someone has 'challenged' them with a set of open-ended demands for information, especially when that person is not open to discussion only an 'attack/demand' followed by them having to defend their views.

@@jessebryant9233 I could answer but I don't want to because you're still behaving like you're an interrogator with a right to know. Your conversation skills need work if you want people to want to discuss their thoughts and experiences with you.

@@jessebryant9233 Having read your initial comments and your discourse with @Jessica Taylor, 1) I consider myself a humanist. 2) This is not a question. 3) I don't consider fear of death the only reason to believe in God; but, I do believe that fear of an eternal Hell incentivises people to take "fire insurance" by becoming religious. 4) The Christian perspective (perhaps you are of another religion; if so, I beg your pardon) is that God is "a jealous God" (Ex: 20:5, Dt 5:9). Also, I would argue that any being which would create a world of animals and people, destroy over 99% of it in a flood, and consign the vast majority to an eternal Hell merely because they didn't worship Him properly is the epitome of selfishness. 5) If you are saying one can have no system of morality apart from "God", which God are you refering to? The Christian God, the Muslim God, the Pagan God, the Navajo God, the Roman Gods...? I believe that any society can formulate standards of behavior without having to reference the Ten Commandments - or the Quran for that matter. I refer you specifically to the concept of freedom of speech, which I don't find championed by any religion, 6) I try to be informed and educated in my beliefs. However, there are also cultural and familial norms which shape our beliefs; so, I don't claim that all my beliefs are a result of "thinking for myself." I spent the first 20 years of my life going to a Christian church because that's what my family did. I learned that there were other religions, and that there were hundreds of denominations of Christians in America alone. The older I got, the less I relied on my culture, and the more critical thinking I did, which ultimately led me to leave Christianity in my 60's. How about you?

@@jessebryant9233 For me, my belief is that we are all there is, and that over the millenia of our existence, we've made up and refined the rules for our social order. I believe that there is no God guiding us in our journey through life. Many people believe in God, and for these peopld when good things happen to them they thank their God for the blessing, and when bad things happen, they either curse God for the punishment, or take the philosophical view that whatever happens is God's plan. People of all religions do this, and live no better lives than people of no religion. One can find a community of similar beliefs (I'm now a Unitarian Universalist) for encouragement and support, whatever their spiritual beliefs. At some point I'll die, but I'm not concerned that I won't go to spend eternity somewhere, and I'm not sad that I won't see my dad again, nor my wife, nor my grandmothers. From dust to dust, as they say. As a child, I was indoctrinated into the beliefs of the Methodist Church. It isn't hard to sell magical thinking to young, impressionable minds which are relatively unable to process critical thining, especially when that's what mom and dad and everyone else seems to believe. Over time, and lacking believable answers to my questions (like "How is it that all the miracles occurred 2000 years ago?", "What happens to Jews and others who believe their sacred texts just as strongly as Christians believe the Bible?", "Why are there two creation stories in Genesis?", "How is it possible that God caused the sun to be "stopped in the middle of the sky... for about a full day" without every living being on it being hurled off into space?", Why did Jesus wait so long to start his ministry? What happened to the people who died before they heard and accepted? How many people did the risen Jesus appear to ((there are several differing accounts on that)), and why, for God's sake and ours, did no one write down this cosmicly important message until 20 or 40 or 70 years later?"), I began to realize that there were no credible answers, and further, that there was no reason to believe the Bible was any more the actual word of God than the Quran, the Vedas, or the Tipitaka. I'll grant that it's all insired, but it all comes down to the writings of men. No golden plates, no tablets of commandments. I don't claim to understand at all how life got started, but neither can I comprehend a God which has just magically been around outside of time without ever having been created. Each to me is equally incomprehensible, but only one requires that I go down the road of magical thinking. The doctrinal differences in Christianity range from whether women can be ordained or even lead Sunday schools where men attend, to whether God has predestined humanity to choose or reject Christianity, to when and how to baptize, to how old does a child have to be to be held accountable for his/her "sins", to whether musical instruments are allowable in a church service, to whether the dead go immediately to Heaven, or "sleep" until the final judgement, to celibate priests vs married ministers, to acceptance of birth control, to which scriptures are canonized, to the treatment of LGBTQ Christians... to give "a few examples." Finally, government guarrantee of freedom of speech, assembly, or religion is nowhere championed in the Bible, and it's a major stretch to try and fit it in. Judaism created a religion and a set of laws for living, and nowhere did it authorize freedom of speech or assembly. Islam also is a religion with a set of rules for living. But Christianity mostly developed with a basic adherence to the Ten Commandments and left the development of governance to the governors. You are looking in the wrong place if you look to the Bible to justify these societal rights; or, for that matter, the concept of democracy. Jesus told us to love one another, and to take care of the less fortunate. Jesus sole political comment was to "give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's." "No Jesus, no peace" is just a phrase on a bumper sticker, Jesse.

It will be closer to 50% - although many won't frame their views in humanistic terms. I'm actually surprised that membership is as much as 30,000 though; that is extremely high for an organisation that has a limited public profile - the latter in no way a reflection of (as renamed) Humanists UK's quality, but rather of the prominent billing given to religions in British public life.

I'm not going to lie, I only just found out what my beliefs are, I've been a humanist since a young age, but I didn't know what one was.

Hasn't done very well then has it after so many years?

What?

Or if someone chooses 2 impose it on you...