The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution

Re:The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution by brandonmenc on Sunday August 02, 2015 @02:57PM (#9991900)

I attend both religious and secular weddings and funerals, and no one seems to be missing a beat.

As an agnostic, I've never thought, "we need an alternative." That probably has to do with the fact that marriages and funerals, even religious ones, are already highly personal, custom affairs.

> secular alternatives for [...] baptisms

An initiation ceremony for secularism? I find that bizarre.

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Re:The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution by dd9990 on Sunday August 02, 2015 @04:09PM (#9992216)

>An initiation ceremony for secularism?

Nothing of the sort. It's a secular christening, .i.e. a party for friends and relatives after the baby is born. I think some European Humanist groups call them naming ceremonies but I haven't been to anything that formal.

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Re:The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution by ptx on Sunday August 02, 2015 @04:28PM (#9992319)

Yes, my parents (who are not religious) did that when my siblings and I were born – a "naming party". I don't think there was any actual ritual or any organization involved, though.

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Re:The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution by rch on Sunday August 02, 2015 @03:08PM (#9991947)

secularism begins at conception :)

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