EUPRAXOPHIA # 4:

CULTS AND STATE-CHURCH SEPARATION

Secular Humanist Magazine

Lima, May, 2004

Abstracts

-SECTARISM: A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM: Héctor Guillén Tamayo

-DESTRUCTIVE CULTS: THE PRESENT TIME OF AN ILLUSION: Juan De Gennaro

It deals with the different components of the phenomenon grouped under the name "Destructive cults".

-NO FEAR OF FREEDOM: How to prevent us from destructive cults: M.A. Paz and Miño

-THE SECOND COUNTER-REFORM: THE OPUS DEI: Jorge Bedregal La Vera

-REVIEW OF FINNGEIR HIORTH: WHO WAS JESUS? by Eduardo Arens

-THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE PERUVIAN STATE IN FRONT OF THE RELIGIOUS FIELD: Ydalid Rojas

This essay analyzes the arguments that have served to keep the state collaboration system in force in favor of the Catholic Church in Peru despite contravening international human rights law and Peruvian constitutional law itself.

-TO CAESAR, WHAT IS CAESAR'S: TOWARDS A STATE WITH FREEDOM OF MIND: José E. Escardó

-THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MUST LEARN TO FISH: Tito Pérez Quiroz

-WHY DOES THE STATE NOT WORK?: Pedro Flecha

-RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN PERUVIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Manuel A. Paz y Miño

-THE CATHOLIC TOTALITARIANISM IN PERU: Herbert Mujica Rojas

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EUPRAXOPHIA # 3:

Incredibility & Non-Religiousness

Lima, 2001
Contents Finngeir Hiorth: What Freethinking now? pp. 1-8

Mathew: An Introduction to Atheism, pp. 9-26

Ernesto Guevara F.: On Atheists & Believers, pp. 27-28

Paul Kurtz: The Future of Humanism, pp. 29-43

Ran Shalom: An Interview with Michael Martin: Champion of Atheism, pp. 44-55

Book reviews on Theism & Atheism by Finngeir Hiorth & Gustavo Flores, pp. 56-72

Also: Statement # 2 and Years 2000-01 Debates of the Peruvian A-Religious Movement

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EUPRAXOPHIA # 2:

What is the Meaning of Life?

Lima, 2001
ABSTRACTS
HAPINESS AS A SOCIAL PLEASURE (pp. 1-7)
Carmen Zavala
Happiness is lived by people through the others, it is not an isolated thing. Then its concept is a socio-cultural product.

LIFE IS TO BE LIVED NOW: A VITAL, PERSONAL HUMANISM (pp. 8-11)
Frederick Edwords
Many times we mistakenly postpone happiness and let it be conditioned by the others´ view. Humanism says we should plan our life because it is the only one that we have.

THE HUMAN LIFE: WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE? (pp. 12-26)
Manuel Abraham Paz y Miño
The meaning of an individual´s life is a product of several circunstances around its existence.

ETHICS AND MEANING OF LIFE (pp. 27-33)
Octavio Obando
The meaning of life was conditionated by religion until Modern times in the West. Social and political events influence on it and it has several levels. There are many kinds of it.

THE MEANING OF LIFE (pp. 34-55)
Paul Kurtz
Author claims: an ethics without God, life is worth to be lived, we should live well satisfaying our basic and spiritual needs with audacity, freedom and reason.

INTERVIEW WITH WALTER  LEDGARD by M.A. Paz y Miño (pp. 56-58)

Book reviews by Víctor Montero (pp. 59-72) of:
How to enjoy better sex, love and marriage by M.A. Paz y Miño, and Introduction to Humanism by F. Hiorth

STATEMENT ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PERU by THE PERUVIAN NON-RELIGIOUS & HUMANIST MOVEMENT.

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EUPRAXOPHIA # 1:

WHAT IS SECULAR HUMANISM?

October 1998

Abstracts

WHAT IS HUMANISM?:
Frederick Edwords, American Humanist Association
Firstly author give us a classification of humanism. Then he describes modern humanism -religious and secular- in a positive way.

A SECULAR HUMANIST DECLARATION:
Paul Kurtz, Center for Inquiry
Secular humanism is a vital force in the contemporary world. It is now under unwarranted and intemperate attack from varios quarters. This declaration defends only that form of secular humanism which is explicitly committed to democracy. It is opossed to all varieties of belief that seek supernatural sanction for their values or espouse rule by dictatorship.

THE HUMANIST WAY:
John Mc Kinnon, Ex Minister of the Universalist Unitarian Church, USA
Humanism is a materialist philosophy and thus a naturalistic one. but the word ‘materialism’ has gained a certain bad reputation in society. For that the author proposes the new terms ‘matter-ism’ and ‘idea-ism’ in order to make the difference. 

ON HUMANISM:
J.P. van Praag, Former Co-President, Internacional Ethic and Humanist Union
It tryes to define and characterize to humanism (mental attitude, humanist asuntions, view of humankind and world, naturality, etc.)

SECULAR HUMANISM: It is the Adjetive that counts:
Joseph Fletcher, former Professor of Ethics, University of Virginia
Author enfatizes the fundamental and negative distinction between secular humanism and other kinds of humanism: its unbelief in God and religions.

BETWEEN RELATIVISM AND/OR FUNDAMENTALISM, an Humanist Answer:
Alberto Hidalgo Tuñón, Philosopher of Universidad de Oviedo
In this enlightening paper the author approches all diferent types of humanism and expresses his discrepancies between those ones and rationalist humanism which is a valid option in those possible scenaries in which it can build its future if it manages to shake off all relativism and fundamentalistic views.

WHO IS AFRAID OF HUMANISM?:
Edd Doerr, American Humanist Association
It is about mainly on Secular humanism in North America where is under unjust attack from the American conservative religious right. Author defends and explains the main Humanist points and also recognizes some of its fails.

WHAT IS NEW IN OUR HUMANISM?:
Claudio Gutiérrez, Ex-Rector, Universidad de Costa Rica and present Minister of Culture in that country.
It is about firstly on several contemporary discoveries in Biology, Genetics, Mathematics, Cybernetics, etc. and also on the end of the Socialist utopia. Humanism should be realsitic, based in Nature and in what we can find by ourselves that is we need.

REVIEWS AND NOTES

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EUPRAXOPHIA

 (from the Greek roots eu [good], praxis [practice] and sophia [wisdom]: Wisdom for a good practice)

EUPRAXOPHIA, a Secular Humanist Magazine publishes articles in Spanish and free style mainly on Secular Humanism, Humanist Ethics and Criticism on Religion.

EUPRAXOPHIA was formerly published by the Peruvian Non-Religious  and Humanist Movement and now it is published by the Peruvian Rationalist Humanists (HURA-PERU).

Honorary editorial board: Jorge Bedregal (San Agustin National University), Theodore Drange (West Virginia University), Fred Edwards (American Humanist Association), Babu Gogineni (International Ethical-Humanist Association), Ernesto Guevara (Federico Villarreal University), Douglas Krueger (Fayetteville Freethinkers), Rob Tielman (Utrecht University), Carmen Zavala (Red Owl Cultural Educative Association).

Eupraxophia´s Secular Pantheon:

Hector Avalos (1958-2021), Iowa State University

Edd Doerr (1930-2020), American Humanist Association

Paul Kurtz (1925-2012), State University of New York / Center for Inquiry

Editor: Manuel A. Paz y Miño, M.Hum. in Applied Ethics (Linköping University)

E-mail: mapymc@yahoo.com

Printed issues

# 1: Secular Humanism

# 2: The Meaning of Life

# 3: Non-belief and Non-religiousity

# 4: Cults and Separation State-Church

Digital issues

# 5: Miscellaneous articles

# 6: Miscellaneous articles

# 7: Psychology of Religion

# 8: Life, Passion and Death of Jesus The Christ

# 9: Atheism 

# 10: Does exist the soul?

# 11: Religion & Politics 

# 12: Why does people believe in God?

# 13:  Religion & Moral

# 14: Separation of State and Church

# 15: Ethics without Religion

# 16: Obscurantism & Irrationalism

A political-religious party in the Peruvian Congress

On February 20, Manuel Paz y Miño made the presentation "FREPAP and 2020 Elections" in the Conference "Analysis of the (Peruvian Legislative) Elections 2020" at the Sciences & Humanities University at Lima. 
The Agricultural People's Front of Peru (FREPAP) is a political party now with 15 of the 130 seats of the Peruvian Congress. FREPAP belongs to the Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant (AEMINPU) an Andean cult whose male members use to have both long hair and beard, and practice animal sacrifices, and the female ones use veils, and men and women wear tunics and respect the Shabat according to the Old Testament.