Brian Hinkley

Brian and his best friend: Kito “Reason and science aligns itself with common sense; religion and superstition aligns itself with nonsense.” -Brian Hinkley ,Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Globalization has demonstrated the world's people have become increasingly dependent on each other. We must re-think the selfish notion of my well-being to our well-being; otherwise, eventually everyone's well-being is in jeopardy.
We need to re-think how our human activities, technology and appetite for growth, affects our environment and all animal and plant life that sustains the human race. We are as much dependent on sustaining; for example the needs of the honey bee, as the honey bee sustains us.
When I re-think of how religious dogma has held back human progress, not only in physics, but also in our humanistic view of the world, I submit that freedom of thought is vital to human progress.
Religious crimes, Nazi crimes, North Korean crimes, etc; the killings, the genocides, the tortures, all committed against humanity in the name of some belief as being acceptable is the antithesis of humanism.

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Whatever the word, that is believed by the people as being the truth, humanity seems hard-wired to follow.
Among the great motivators in life are fear, reward, love, faith, hope and knowledge. Pick your motivator. I pick knowledge.
Freedom, in all its forms, is only free when authority can stand up to the challenges of questioning. to not question authority is to give up your freedom.
Too many people think their words don't count. All words count, whether they come from a parent, a teacher, a pastor or a homeless vagabond. It is vital for humanists to raise their voices on behalf of humanity.
A pessimist might state that greed, over-consumption, oppression, egoism, and revenge dominate our world. Whatever the truth, I believe we must continually think and re-think the central principles that best serve humanity.
Killing one another must surely be accepted, by any measuring stick, as wrong. Yet we continue the killing spree in spite of our drive for renewal. The challenge we face is to re-think why we continue to kill and seek out new solutions to this the greatest threat to humanity.

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