Philosophy Thoughts as and when

Happy World Humanism Day! 🎉🎊🎉🎊🥳🥂🍾🥧🍰🧁🍨☕☕ Sadly, there's no emoji for Humanism, although there is a logo: the happy human.  Humanism is a branch of philosophy. The types of Humanism commonly listed (not an exhaustive list) within the history of philosophy include: Secular Humanism :  non-religious approach prioritised, naturalistic, cosmic, consequentialist ethics Religious Humanism:  either refers to humanists who consider humanism to be a type of religion or it refers to freethinkers who have humanists principles, ethics and politics but hold some religious beliefs while rejecting institutional religion. Perhaps a good example is the freethinking deist Thomas Paine, but he deconstructed his religious beliefs and practices. Some try to stretch this category, and humanism in general, to include liberal denominational Christians (eg some Lutherans) but I think that's going too far because, unlike Judaism, Christianity is only a religion, it doesn't have a cul...