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It's Our Secular(ish) Isms Bake Off!

Connecticut Public Radio | By Jonathan McNicol
Published April 7, 2016 at 6:41 PM EDT
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It's Yale and New Haven Humanism Week in New Haven, and so we thought: Hey, wait. Just what the heck is a humanism exactly anyway?

And so then we thought: And what about, uh, agnosticism? Unitarianism? Universalism? Unitarian Universalism? Maybe even atheism?

Are these secular(ish) isms all cut from the same ism-shaped cookie cutter? Where do they overlap? Where do they disagree? And, really, we're Americans: Which one wins?!

So we're having a bake off. A cage match. A grudge match. A duel to the death!

Or, I mean, we'll have a nice, cordial discussion about these related but different ways of looking at the world.

Plus, maybe there'll be cookies.

The Yale Humanist Community’s Yale and New Haven Humanism Week runs through Saturday, April 9. The Green Light Project campaign runs for 40 days.

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Colin McEnroe and Betsy Kaplan contributed to this show.
Jonathan McNicol
Jonathan is a producer for ‘The Colin McEnroe Show.’ His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on Connecticut Public’s talk shows and news magazines. He’s as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. Jonathan can be reached at jmcnicol@ctpublic.org.
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