Humanist Community:Letter from C. Martin Centner

Letter to the Editor,Washington Post,December 27, 2008 on page A14:

"It is true that humanist parents have difficulty finding a supportive community similar to that found in a church(News story,Dec.21). Luckily, our area has three Ethical Societies -one each in North Virginia, Washington and Baltimore.

Each group is a congregation that provides Sunday school for children, meetings for adults and other activities. All welcome visitors seeking an alternative to traditional religious beliefs and doctrines, people who have faith in reason and compassion and who seek a like-minded community comitted to making this world more humane."

The above community sounds like China since most folks in China are born with Confucian tenets from families of past generations to learn ethics and morality. In the West,Adam Smith was a professor of moral philosophy to share such reasoning of humanity. However,folks with zeal in humanity may have faith in religion as well.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao on December 27, 2008 at 11.12 a.m.
. Any person with faith in his/her chosen religion may be a humanist as well. That is my rationale in sending this blog for understanding Sino-American economics of free volition of the minds in the name of Homosapiens.

Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao,a searcher of spiritual faith leading to religious belief with human behavior for the sake of humanity. fDecember 27, 2008 in USA.