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despite involvement in the centre of humanist affairs, able to find out. I happened to find a materialist interpretation of the world more plausible and a libertarian attitude to sex and other appetites more congenial than the one I was brought up in (perhaps I was never really 'saved'), but I was unable to see that in everyday matters of tolerance, balanced judgement, truthfulness, trustworthiness, and the rest humanists were any better than anyone else".
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in 1972 he observed: "In so far as there were no creeds, dietary and other tabus there was less occasion for humbug. I did, however, find that there were some humanists ... who thought ... about 'changed lives' as a result of some new humanist insight into living. What precisely this was I was never,
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adversely affected. AGWCC is very complex. Whether it turns out to be 'absolute crap' or 'the greatest moral challenge of our time' seems unlikely to be settled in my lifetime". David Tribe had already expressed stern observations on scientists in
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