Council for Secular Humanism

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The Council for Secular Humanism (CSH, originally Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism ) is an American association for the promotion of secularization and non-religious humanism and a member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union and represents the Amsterdam Declaration (2002). The symbol is the happy human . The organization is based in Amherst (New York) .

history

The declaration A Secular Humanist Declaration (1980) became famous . The Council for Secular Humanism publishes the journal Free Inquiry . In 1991 Paul Kurtz, together with the CSH, united the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, both of which he leads. In 2006 it hit the headlines when, among other things, the Borders Group refused to distribute the April – May issue of Free Inquiry because it had the Jyllands-Posten caricatures of Mohammed on the front page.

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