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Stephen Fry: 'What is a humanist ceremony?'
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Күн бұрынStephen Fry and the British Humanist Association have teamed up to explain what makes humanist weddings, namings, and funerals the ideal options for non-religious people looking to mark major turning points in their lives.
The BHA works on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical lives on the basis of reason and humanity. We promote Humanism, a secular state, and equal treatment of everyone regardless of religion or belief. Our celebrants provide non-religious funeral, wedding, and naming ceremonies.
For more information about humanist ceremonies, visit humanistceremon....
To find a humanist celebrant where you live, visit humanism.org.u....
Credits: Words by British Humanist Association. Narration by Stephen Fry. Animated by Marcus Armitage.
@rwentfordable 4 жыл бұрын
When I buried my grandmother she had an Anglican burial. It was incredibly depressing and hardly anything was mentioned of her as a person or events of her life. My father had a humanist cremation, it was all about sharing stories of his life and the little quirks that made him him. It was much longer and many who came and paid respects had never hard of celebrants or humanism. I know how I want to go out.
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
it feels saddening that people pay more respect to an imaginary something rather than a real person who passed away, and in a burial, the speech is 90% consistant of that imaginary thing that doesnt exist. and 10% is abiut the person that the burial IS ABOUT. its really sad... i hope your grandmother and father are in peace.
@iansdigby 7 жыл бұрын
Whilst I don't share these views, I respect his ability to talk about humanism without denigrating religion.
@dHolbach77 7 жыл бұрын
Criticism of religion (and non-religion!), politics, ethics, social policies, etc. is morally obligatory. Yes it should be civil, but to say all criticism is ad hom "denigration" is to support dangerous censorship. We can not, and never have, progressed as a species without critique of our institutions and beliefs, no matter how "off limits" they were, or are, held by some.
@Xyndernox 3 жыл бұрын
Well put
@philipdunkerley7830 7 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Morality, decency and social responsibility, including family life, have nothing to do with the superstition of religion. Season's Greeting to all. Happy Solstice everyone :-)
@iansdigby 7 жыл бұрын
...and so the vast majority of all the world's people, who do follow a religion and believe their morality to be based upon it, are in fact immoral or deluded?
@dHolbach77 7 жыл бұрын
He didn't say that at all. I would disagree with his choice of the word "superstition" (although religious people also hold every other religion--tens of thousands of them--but theirs as a gross, and dangerous, superstition; not to mention the majority view the non-religious as delusional and immoral) but you're making a straw man. Plenty of religious people are of course ethical and lead morally praiseworthy lives; but this is not at all logically (or even practically) predicated upon their religion, which is why the non-religious can and do lead exemplary lives as well.
@iansdigby 7 жыл бұрын
I am a Baha'i. Baha'is regard all world religions as of equal validity.
@TheMOV13 6 жыл бұрын
Humanism, in it's original form, recognised the religious experience as part of the human experience, although it didn't look for religious explanations of life. latter day humanism is a rather shrivelled up version of what used to be a much broader and more encompassing movement.
@orlansmith6230 5 жыл бұрын
Religious people like me have the right to have our own beliefs and not face bullying and mocking
@marcusanark2541 5 жыл бұрын
Yes! It's very important to have our own rituals and ceremonies, and that they be authentic and meaningful to each person.
@catherineknight7129 3 жыл бұрын
One of the reasons I got involved in humanism many years ago was because of the ceremonies offered for people who stood apart from the norms and conventions, for whatever reasons. It would have been good to have a homosexual couple shown for the marriage as if anything humanism is about inclusiveness.
@cedricvaz6112 2 жыл бұрын
Is there any Humanist chapter or Organization here in India affiliated to Humanist UK.? Kindly advise. Thanks. 🤔
@jadestep9624 7 жыл бұрын
This video made my morning much brighter.
@s0umyendu 3 жыл бұрын
Mine too in the morning of 31st JAN, 2021
@FaviusArthum 2 ай бұрын
@@s0umyendu Just wanna brighten your day and say, happy birthday, random stranger! Wether it is about to happen or has already happened recently, wish you haooy birthday and all the best in this life
@science_and_anonymous 7 жыл бұрын
absulutely beautifully put
@-integrity-3287 7 жыл бұрын
science_and_anonymous As a single person i can say this.. if only it were real.
@science_and_anonymous 7 жыл бұрын
T R77 hahahah, well I'm single to man
@-integrity-3287 7 жыл бұрын
science_and_anonymous As am i, but sometimes when i want to go fishing, he doesn't want to come. ☺
@science_and_anonymous 7 жыл бұрын
T R77 :)
@orlansmith6230 5 жыл бұрын
If humanists could tolerate and show respect for anyone who disagrees with them then this world would be a better world indeed
@InspireWire 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@bareback100 5 жыл бұрын
The desire of most people to clothe the important events of their lives in ceremonial is in itself a convincing proof of humanities inherently religious nature. Humanist funerals, humanists weddings and humanists naming ceremonies are in themselves religious events and confirm our need to find ways of responding to the metaphysical dimension of our existence.
@user-ef1qy9zq1g 3 жыл бұрын
Religious means believing in a religion, there’s nothing about celebrating life that is inherently religious...
@user-vl5lt4xi2p 2 жыл бұрын
So true, I agree. People cannot and will not remove or distance themselves from the transcendental nature of existence no matter how hard they try.
@arleyantes9321 2 жыл бұрын
I'm very new to humanism, but still, here are my 2 cents: What those rituals and ceremonies are evidence of, is our need for meaning, the human drive to search for meaning. Humanists (in general) reject an imposed meaning that comes from a religious system of beliefs, while giving life their own meaning. There's a strong connection between humanism and existentialism.
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
No it's a way of people/ family to come together celebrate/ remember a loved one with some ceremony to it. There is no calling on a bigger than us force/ something/ God It's just a way to be a bunch of people with a similar goal (celebrating/ remembering) someone important to them
@anon3191 6 ай бұрын
Ceremonies or marking important events in one's life predates organized religion. Then religion came & appropriated these ceremonies.
@shirley8155 4 жыл бұрын
Well... I've listened to Stephen being reassuring and wise, and I've read all the comments below. I haven't believed in a god for many years, and I believe that when you die - that's it. I feel secure in my belief in myself as a conscious being not dependent on any god. But I do respect those that need to believe in a higher being that is responsible for, or oversees, our lives. Organised religions do provide moral conduct and structure for millions of people. Although, many people in this world don't seem to have even the opportunity to choose what they think or believe. I probably have views like the Humanists, but I just don't want to join a club.
@freddiet23 4 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I was thinking while watching
@richardchampion1034 2 жыл бұрын
It’s a massive gamble you are taking because eternity is an awfully long time to have regrets. So you don’t believe in God? That will be an interesting icebreaker when you meet Him.
@jimgordon8938 2 жыл бұрын
@@richardchampion1034 Is it safe to assume you are a religious man then Richard? Or do you just have a gambling addiction? 🙂
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
@@richardchampion1034eh, not like anyone has ever met him before. and nobody does, nobody will. there isnt anyone to meet like that.
@truelegendv1 5 жыл бұрын
This was beautiful!
@leoluna3987 6 жыл бұрын
Humanism ceremonies perhaps should be inviting to all not just breeders , being a religously abused person, hungry to see us view each other in love not judgemental myth rantings. Humanities survival depends on our will to learn to nurture rather then war. Repair rather then deplete. Be fair to the earth and perhaps be a better human creature.
@vanessaberto7463 5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful video, excellent work!
@honorgiles9638 3 жыл бұрын
how do they celebrate ceromonys?
@Fau. 3 жыл бұрын
The same way everybody else does just without any religious crap like priests.
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
the same way religious wedding are, but without priests, and the speech is about THE COUPLE and not the imaginatory thing that you guys believe in. its about the couple instead of.. whatecer you guys hear at your weddings, that doesnt even include yourselves. basically a religious wedding but actually good and the wedding being about the couple.
@mxskh.32.M 6 жыл бұрын
Would they have a ceremony for a baby being born need to know for homework
@solidcolt7120 3 жыл бұрын
yeah
@paulinecoburn181 3 жыл бұрын
You need a comma after born, otherwise your question doesn’t make sense.
@Cyberphunkisms 3 жыл бұрын
to call this "non-religious" is a profound misunderstanding of ideology. see my work.
@allahhernandez3546 4 жыл бұрын
I am that I am
@cemkara5700 5 жыл бұрын
Is it neccessary? I mean why do we need ceremony? Actually I did not think before watching this video. Do I need this kind of ceremonies? Still do not know. Maybe my social environment is not fit to that. I do not have any non religious friend. So in that loniness it sounds funny to me.
@Fau. 3 жыл бұрын
Were literally the exact same as you but the difference is that we don't believe in religion, we celebrate the exact same things but the difference is that we just don't bring priests.
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
well yeah it is necessary, because for us, non believers, wedding is a cwlebration of the couple's eternal love and happiness, not dependance on god or whatever you guys talk on your weddings, i guess religious weddings are all about the couple being married to god😂 nonetheless, yeah, for us, we celebrate the event like this, the event of love and not dedication to imaginatory beings, i dont get how a wedding being all about love and not god can be funny to you.
@andybray9791 10 ай бұрын
As long as they don’t put same sex marriage in church (tho some fell victim to it) up to u guys in your belief. I do find ur group interesting without endorsing. Wonder if Glastonbury is humanist capital or Stonehenge
@ddalgi-hime-07 3 жыл бұрын
Not the Harry Potter narrator 😭🤚🏼
@orlansmith6230 5 жыл бұрын
When I die, I'm having a religious ceremony
@originalblob 3 жыл бұрын
Well, good for you...
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
Okay!?
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
alright, its your thing if you want your ceremony to be about an imaginatory thing instead of YOURSELF. you want your burial to be about someone else that doesnt even exist? your problem, if you wont be mentioned even once at your ceremony.
@zednott688 7 жыл бұрын
y were all the couples str8 tho
@HumanistsUK 7 жыл бұрын
There was a gay male couple (both coloured 'red' for weddings) chatting with a celebrant at one stage.
@zednott688 7 жыл бұрын
British Humanist Association thanks for replying!! but tbh it was really not obvious - like the narrator was saying "working with families" or smth at the time so i thought that those three ppl (0:42) were part of the couple's family. and i assumed that bc the narrator, stephen fry, is gay, and to me the whole point of humanism is to be accepting and liberal, that there'd be at least one blatant and obvious same sex couple. js. and if i, a card-carrying homosexual, who was looking out for gay couples, couldn't spot it, then maybe it isnt proper representation.
@HatecraftPaladin 7 жыл бұрын
As a humanist I do not label people by there sexuality. So if your only concern regarding this video is that their is not enough LGBT couple's then you are not listening to the message it is trying to get across. Please do not focus and pigeon hole people like that we are all human and that is the only way we should be seen. IMO
@Joshuk1984 7 жыл бұрын
Not to mention the narrator is gay...
@philipdunkerley7830 7 жыл бұрын
Humanists welcome same-sex relationships. I'm not aware of any religions that do, certainly most do not and some are prepared to practice violence or discriminate against same-sex couples. But, yes, the video would have been better to show an example of a same-sex relationship. I bet Stephen Fry would agree!
@bigbarty8648 Жыл бұрын
I was considering a Humanist funeral but Stephen Fry and the rainbow logo have put me right off.
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
What a silly comment
@jmk1962 Жыл бұрын
It's not just silly, it's homophobic and I'm not even gay.
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
you have won "the stupidest comment" award, buddy. keep being a homophobic idiot, im sure your "god" will "accept" you for discriminating certain people for loving others.
@darknext7303 7 жыл бұрын
Nonsense copycat..marriage is to create trust for both couples.This is religion.
@youwhatmadeidk 5 жыл бұрын
Dark next you’re a dumb fuck.
@Mercuryrules 5 жыл бұрын
@@youwhatmadeidk you're a typical "humanist" !!
@youwhatmadeidk 5 жыл бұрын
Mercuryrules is that supposed to be an insult?
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
There is no deity involved. Therefore....
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
trust isnt religion. marriage is to establisha nd celebrate the love of THE COUPLE. but the religious marriages only talk about god, not about the couple that THE WHOLE CEREMONY IS ABOUT. stop believing in your kids stories and imaginatory things for once. love isnt religion, love is love, and i dont want MY wedding's speech to be about something that DOESNT EXIST. i want MY WEDDING about ME and MY PARTNER to be about ME AND MY PARTNER! suck it up, fairy tale believer.
@armyantlocsta 4 жыл бұрын
ACTS 2:38 or perish
@lewismcparland9706 Жыл бұрын
Find God !
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
Find humanism. Find atheism!
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
find a properly working brain and dont believe imaginatory things that dont exist! find actual love to real people and not dedication to something not real!
@richardchampion1034 2 жыл бұрын
How anybody can believe this is beyond me, when you can have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and know Him for yourself, this makes no sense whatsoever. But the one thing you will do is bow the knee before Almighty God. The Bible says, seek and you will find. Why not do that and then you will bow the knee willingly 😇
@Mr8erg 2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes the old personal friend Jesus 😂 Crikey there’s a place for you lot on your own channels, leave us alone here in the real world please.
@richardchampion1034 Жыл бұрын
@@Mr8erg Real world? You will find that the only realists in this world are Christians. The thing is, I know that I’m right because I’ve been both sides, and atheist and now a follower of Jesus Christ. Let’s be fair, if you are right and I’m wrong then none of us have lost anything. However, if I’m right and you are wrong then eternity is an awfully long time to have regrets. You will also find that science points towards creation. To believe anything else is completely illogical.
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
@@richardchampion1034 you need to study philosophy to find out why your comment is so childish
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
"BoW YoUr knEEs BEfOrE ThE ALMigHtY gOd" isnt god all-loving? why would be show himself as almighty and not equal? lmao, your religious people are so dumb. there isnt any god, this is all kids stories. how anyone can believe in this thing is beyond me. imagine you die and your brain stops working, therefore your eyes and mind aswell, so you wouldnt be able to see past your death. if anyone knew jesus personally and had a relationship with him, there would be such information anywhere beside bibles and delusional drunkards. nobody ever saw god or jesus, nobody ever spoke to them, and they. do not. exist. you cant have a relationship with something that is NOT REAALL. i would rather focus on real living people around me.
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
@@richardchampion1034.....science points to the fact that the earth was a burning non living planet that the life ACCIDENTALLY appeared in and then EVOLVED. itsevilution, and its more ligical than whatever your imagination twlls you or that old crusty book written by delusional psychos.
@scart121 4 жыл бұрын
Where is God? God should be at the center of things.
@kynikoi_6867 4 жыл бұрын
Not for all and for some all is God
@rwentfordable 4 жыл бұрын
You can deify things or humanize things. We all know humans exist so we should be at the center. When I buried my grandmother she had an Chrisitian burial. It was incredibly depressing and hardly anything was mentioned of her as a person or events of her life and large part was taken up in a generic praying. My father had a humanist cremation, it was all about sharing stories of his life and the little quirks that made him him. It was much longer and tailored to his life and not an imaginary man.
@anthonycraddock6739 Жыл бұрын
Religion is just 5th 6th 7th century mentality and it really doesn’t belong in the 21st century of reasoning , logic and science not dogmatic indoctrination . It belongs in the past ,that’s where God is.
@herbieshine1312 Жыл бұрын
A good question. Where is God/ gods? Even though humans have believed in God/ gods for a long time God/ gods are still not to be found God/ gods are still nowhere to be seen Makes you wonder if God/ gods aren't real and are just an invention from the human mind!
@markfaites Жыл бұрын
well that my question, WHERE IS GOD? where is he? can you... point at him so i can start believing that he actually exists? i should center on REAL THINGS, like human beings, and not some made up beings. god isnt real, he shouldnt be anywhere.
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