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What can people learn from Humanism?

'What can people learn from Humanism?  Humour, love and respect for each other.  We all have so much in common' That's the title the Leicester Mercury placed above an interview piece about me and my work in the community as a non-religious celebrant and volunteer hospital chaplaincy visitor ( More Mercury, 9 Feb 2013, pp 10-11) . I couldn't find it on their website, so here it is: I was 8 years old when I decided that I didn’t believe in god.  I’d thought about it a lot, and worked out that it simply didn’t stack up.  It wasn’t a subject that was often spoken about at home.  My grandmother had an expectation that I attend Sunday School, which I did until I was 11.  I spoke to my mother about my atheism, who thought it was no big deal and that I should be allowed to make my own mind up about such matters.  It’s only in recent years that people have started to identify themselves by their religion.  We used to simply refer to each other as ‘people’ rather than as