Paul Kurtz

UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to those who accept the faith and obey his Prophets. Today, the chariots of the gods are UFOs. What we are witnessing in the past half century is the spawning of a New Age religion.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

A universal skepticism is limited by its own criteria. If we assume it to be true, then it is false.

Three key humanist virtues are courage cognition and caring not dependence ignorance or insensitivity to the needs of others.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.