The Church of Spiritual Humanism

Spiritual Humanism does not require its members to perform any particular practices. Each person's spirituality has to be developed individually and everyone is free to draw upon whatever religious tradition and behaviors are most appropriate for their own unique situation and background.

All humans have an inalienable right and duty to practice their own religious traditions. Spiritual Humanism allows everyone to fuse their individual religious practices onto the foundation of scientific humanist inquiry. We accept people from any religious background and recognize the validity of all peaceful religious practices and behaviors as being helpful and necessary in developing the spiritual nature of humanity.

Observing holidays is a tradition intertwined with spirituality. The depth of humanity's need for holy days and the biological connection to the earth's yearly cycles are subjects that have not been satisfactorily researched.

Here are some astronomical events that have been used to mark holy days in many different religions for thousands of years. Celebrating these events recognizes both the continuity of humanity over thousands of years and how much we have progressed from the simple agrarians who depended upon astronomical sitings for their survival. Winter Solstice, Spring or Vernal Equinox, also known as Ostara, Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox.

It is a religion beleiving that any religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge, where all gods are one.