"We humanists take one look at a world in which the lives of thousands of innocent children are ripped away every year by hurricanes, earthquakes, and other 'acts of God,' not to mention the thousand other fundamental injustices of life, and we conclude that if the universe we live in does not have competent moral management, then so be it: we must become the superintendents of our own lives." --from the introduction of Good Without God, page xiii, by Greg M. Epstein (the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University).
I'm looking forward to reading this book. I have a feeling that it is going to do a very good job of capturing what more and more Americans really do believe--and not just those outside of our churches, but within them as well.
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