I've considered myself a secular humanist for a while now. What's interesting is that much of my morality is actually based on Judeo-Christian values intuitively (via the dominant culture) and Buddhist values by design (adult exploration of morality).
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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