Humanists, the Happy Heathens
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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If you don’t believe in any kind of god or afterlife - or even that there’s a meaning to life – does that mean you’re doomed to a life of gloom and doom? Heck no!, say humanists. Their philosophical movement says you can make your own meaningful life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.8 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. |
| 0:20.4 | And this is stuff you should know about humanism, which I find fairly relatable in a lot of ways, but in other ways, not necessarily. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah. Can we, we'll get into it. Can we say what Livia titled this one? |
| 0:37.8 | She's been really killing it lately. |
| 0:39.4 | She has. |
| 0:40.9 | Go ahead. |
| 0:42.7 | This is on humanism, the bright side of being a godless heathen. |
| 0:48.2 | That's right. |
| 0:49.4 | I was looking for that AHA definition because that put it about as good as anything in this whole |
| 0:55.3 | article. The, um, is it American humanist association? Is it an association? Yes, they are |
| 1:02.1 | associated. Yeah, they put it like this. It's a progressive philosophy of life that without |
| 1:06.4 | theism or other supernatural beliefs, bit of a dig, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical |
| 1:13.8 | lives of personal fulfillment that aspire to the greater good. And of course, if you don't know what |
| 1:19.7 | theism is, we're talking about, you know, religion and God. So it's like, hey, you can be a good |
| 1:25.2 | person and have a moral and ethical center and strive to do those things without God at the center of it. |
| 1:33.1 | Yeah, for sure. And most humanists, yeah, I think it's fair to say most are atheists or at least agnostic. |
| 1:43.5 | Yeah. At the very least, if they do believe in a God, he's not an interventionist God. |
| 1:48.9 | He's not playing a role in our lives day to day. |
| 1:52.9 | Maybe you could also interchange that definition of God with the universe or nature |
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