u/ambiverbal

On the latest episode of "Embrace the Void," Aaron interviews psychologist Dr. Darrel Ray about leadership in secular organizations.

He emphasizes that organizational leadership requires developing specific skills, metaphorically akin to learning to drive a car.

I think his ideas have merit, particularly among our small & newish Humanist communities, and wanted to share the episode and provoke a discussion.

(Darrel wrote "The God Virus" and formed Recovering from Religion and the Secular Therapy Project.)

My primary identification with Humanism is through what I have perceived as its open adoption of non-theism and science-based approaches to assessing what's real.

But more and more I'm seeing folks post in ways that suggest that we should be quieting our secularism. (In fact, I've felt like being proud of holding a secular point of view is somehow antithetical to reaching Humanist goals.)

I don't want to foment a schism in the movement, but neither do I want to hide my beliefs in order to reach some sort of perverted consensus that no one really agrees with.

Am I perceiving things incorrectly, or am I right to keep capitalizing, embolding, & italicizing SECULAR to ensure my Humanist perspectives are not minimized?