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Joe Chuman's avatar

Many thanks, Hershel. One would hope that affirming humanism would lead an adherent to a flexible, fluid, open view to the ideas that are held. But alas, there is often a disconnect between professed values and the personality that underlies them.

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Joe, if I may use your given name as if we have met, I am 79 and I share most of your views. I first read a book review from you which was printed in The NY Times. Since then, I have looked forward to reading you on a regular basis. Regarding humanism, I have learned much from you. I see in you many of the same views and principles I embrace, and am not sure from whence they came. You speak of its being without dogma, but from experience I can tell you many adherents, probably less enlightened than you, are evangelical to a degree that would put a Southern Baptist to shame.

Be safe and enjoy life.

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