Humanists include atheists and agnostics who make sense of the world using reason, experience and shared human values.
We take responsibility for our actions and base our ethics on the goals of human welfare, happiness and fulfilment. We seek to make the best of the one life we have by creating meaning and purpose for ourselves, individually and together.
The Humanist Society of Scotland recently released nine short films that show what humanists believe on a wide range of important moral issues, including same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide and sectarianism.
The films were shot all Scotland, and feature contributions from more than fifty people, ranging from 10 year old Mirren Buchanan in Thurso to 81 year old Margaret Ferguson from Inverness.
The films can be seen at the H Factor campaign site and on Vimeo where they can also be downloaded and shared on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Humanists do not have one fixed “text” that describes all about humanism. You can find out more by reading:
- The Amsterdam Declaration
- Some quotations about humanism, and
- An essay on Humanist Ethics by Nigel Bruce, a long-serving HSS member
