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Illuminating and Elevating the naturalistic Worldview

Who is a Bright?

• A bright is a person who has a naturalistic worldview
• A bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements
• The ethics and actions of a bright are based on a naturalistic worldview

naturalistic: conceiving of reality as natural (not supernatural) 

worldview: (wide world perception) is a fundamental cognitive orientation encompassing natural philosophy; fundamental existential and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics; a framework of ideas through which an individual interprets the world and interacts with it, in a word, weltanschauung (gasp) Worldview

 

What are this movement's aims?

1. Promote the civic understanding and acknowledgment of the naturalistic worldview, which is free of supernatural and mystical elements.
2. Gain public recognition that persons who hold such a worldview can bring principled actions to bear on matters of civic importance.
3. Educate society toward accepting the full and equitable civic participation of all such individuals.

The Constituency of Brights is Hugely Diverse

The movement’s goals attract all sorts of people who “have a naturalistic worldview” and favor thinking of themselves broadly and in a civic sense, as Brights:

• atheist, humanist, secular humanist, freethinker, rationalist, naturalist, agnostic, or skeptic
• there are individuals who go by their preferred affiliations, such as Ethical Culturalist, Pantheist, Buddhist, Yogi, Wiccan, Transhumanist, or Unitarian
• Also part of the gamut of constituents are Jews, Catholics, Quakers, Episcopalians, and others who may personally maintain their religion’s cultural or aesthetic aspects, but not its supernaturalism
• There are professors of religious studies and clergy in and out of practice who are Brights (e.g., Unitarian-Universalist ministers, Protestant pastors, even one ex-Benedictine monk)
• Some constituents do not associate themselves with familiar groupings or labels

The Brights Principles

The Brights’ Principles succinctly characterize the movement:

1. We are a constituency of individuals (the registered Brights)
2. We conserve original definitions (of a bright)
3. The Brights' Net offers a pragmatic action connection for Brights
4. The Brights' Net functions as an Internet entity (not as a membership organization);
5. The movement is inclusive of the varied Brights who support its aims
6. The movement is carried forward by these individuals (the Brights) and is not describable by other labels
7. The Brights, and not others, are to define their movement
8. The movement is to be a positive force toward full civic participation (fairness for all)
9. The Brights seek acknowledgment and influence in society.

The Brights' Network registers brights into an Internet constituency of Brights and serves as a communications hub for actions that align with the aims and principles of the Brights movement.

Living on the Bright Side Of Life

Wikipedia's Discussion

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