Mason Olds

From Philosopedia

Olds, Mason (20th Century)

Olds, of the Department of Humanities at Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, is editor of the journal, Religious Humanism. He wrote American Religious Humanism (1996), in which he explained that religious humanists are not theists. Of John Hassler Dietrich, he wrote that "[Dietrich's] significance as a religious thinker is based on his audacity in rethinking doctrines of the western religious tradition from the perspective of naturalistic humanism."

He avers that religious humanists constitute the largest percentage of organizationally active humanists in the United States, a fact that many secular humanists say is unsupported.

What Is Religious Humanism?

In April 1996, Olds wrote an article explaining what Religious Humanism is, one published by Humanists of Utah.

Review of American Religious Humanism

Michael Werner in The Humanist (July-August, 1997) reviewed Olds's American Religious Humanism, making the point that "some humanists have portrayed religious humanists as theists, which they are not. In fact, they probably constitute the largest percentage of organizationally active humanists in the United States [[1]].