Humanism
Jessica Hagy has a great blog called Indexed, in which she distills down some interesting thoughts and perspectives to short charts or diagrams presented on 3×5 Index cards. Below is one of my many favorites:
For those unfamiliar with Humanism, Wikipedia has a nice description which is summarized as follows:
Humanism is a broad category of ethical philosophies that affirm the dignity and worth of all people, based on the ability to determine right and wrong by appealing to universal human qualities, particularly rationality, without resorting to the supernatural or alleged divine authority from religious texts. It is a component of a variety of more specific philosophical systems. Humanism can be considered as a process by which truth and morality is sought through human investigation and as such views on morals can change when new knowledge and information is discovered. In focusing on the capacity for self-determination, humanism rejects transcendental justifications, such as a dependence on belief without reason, the supernatural, or texts of allegedly divine origin. Humanists endorse universal morality based on the commonality of the human condition, suggesting that solutions to human social and cultural problems cannot be parochial.
The institution of humanism will really be a great contribution for society, when we are capable to understand that the idea of God should not be a property of religions, believers, organizations, intellectuals with their opinions, but a reason to keep searching for evidences, like anything else we feel attracted to, with the ‘spirit of search’ within the possible truth and flowing feel, reason and humility to bring the results as a science, before our personal theories take over.