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Welcome to the Gulf Coast Humanist Association web site.

We are Charter Members of the American Humanist Association and a subchapter of the Humanists of Florida Association. Our goal is to provide you with useful information about our group that we hope will give you an understanding of Humanism and what we are about.

The Gulf Coast Humanist Association has been serving the Venice, Englewood, North Port and Port Charlotte communities since 2004. We meet the 1st Saturday of each month at a local restaurant in Venice at 11:30AM. At present we are using Pelican Point off Center Rd. in Venice.

Feel free to browse around this site. If you have comments or questions about us, or simply need more information and want to contact us, click on the About Us button on any page within this site.

Thanks for visiting and we look forward to serving you.

Please browse to our news page to find articles, pictures and links to other web sites that we feel are interesting to Humanists and anyone who reads these pages. The news page is updated on a regular basis. This link, however, is so moving I thoght i belonged on the home page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bJCyqcQCfQ&feature=related

Camp Quest is the first residential summer camp in the history of the United States for the children of Atheists, Freethinkers, Humanists, Brights, or whatever other terms might be applied to those who hold to a naturalistic, not supernatural world view.

There is a group of Floridians actively working to bring a Camp Quest to Florida in the near future.

Here is an article from the IHS news that has made the AP news wire regarding Camp Quest. http://www.humaniststudies.org/enews/?id=349&article=1

SUMMARY OF HUMANISM AND ITS ASPIRATIONS

Humanist Manifesto III

The following manifests a consensus of what we believe.

Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis.
Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change.
Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience.
Life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of human ideals.
Humans are social by nature and find meaning in relationships.
Working to benefit society maximizes individual happiness.

We work to uphold the equal enjoyment of human rights and civil liberties in an open, secular society and find that humanity has the ability to progress toward its highest ideals. The responsibility for our lilves and the kind of world in which we live is ours and ours alone.




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