Toward a Humanist Vocabulary of Reverence  This article is
originally from
http://www.uua.org/news/2003/vocabulary/bumbaugh.html and is
posted here only out of my love for its message and my fear that
it might be taken offline someday. So, please see it in its
original form at the link above. If that doesn't work, then it
is here as well...  by David Bumbaugh  Boulder International
Humanist Institute Fourth Annual Symposium Boulder, Colorado
February 22, 2003  It was seventy years ago that a group of
scholars issued the “Humanist Manifesto”, a document outlining a
new religious vision, more adequate to the challenges and the
opportunities of the twentieth century. The Manifesto was not
the product of some whimsical enthusiasm. Rather, it was the
culmination of a complex process which had its roots in the
thought of Theodore Parker and other Transcendentalist thinkers
of New England, as the implications of that radical religious
vision had been worked out in the Western Unitarian Conference,
and within the Eth