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Demar sees the Brights Movement as an attempt to soften the image of [[Secular Humanism|secular humanist]] and states the following:

Demar sees the Brights Movement as an attempt to soften the image of [[Secular Humanism|secular humanist]] and states the following:

{{cquote|In an effort to repackage themselves, some groups began softening their image. The secular humanists, for example, revised the Humanist Manifesto, replacing its anti-God statements with anti-supernaturalism statements.  This was done, interestingly, the same year the Brights movement was founded.<ref>http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/08-11-06.asp</ref>

{{cquote|In an effort to repackage themselves, some groups began softening their image. The secular humanists, for example, revised the Humanist Manifesto, replacing its anti-God statements with anti-supernaturalism statements.  This was done, interestingly, the same year the Brights movement was founded.<ref>http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/08-11-06.asp</ref>}}

Demar also offers the following criticism of the Brights Movement:

Demar also offers the following criticism of the Brights Movement:

{{cquote|The Brights' Net is peppered with suggestions of second-class citizenship and charges of social discrimination against their ilk, reminiscent of the Civil Rights days. Yet, unlike Dr. Martin Luther King who successfully invoked God and God's law for moral authority, the Brights are without any standard higher than the whimsy of populism or the tyranny of authoritarianism.<ref>http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/08-11-06.asp</ref>

{{cquote|The Brights' Net is peppered with suggestions of second-class citizenship and charges of social discrimination against their ilk, reminiscent of the Civil Rights days. Yet, unlike Dr. Martin Luther King who successfully invoked God and God's law for moral authority, the Brights are without any standard higher than the whimsy of populism or the tyranny of authoritarianism.<ref>http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/08-11-06.asp</ref>}}

==External Links==

==External Links==

*[http://www.the-brights.net/ The Brights' Net - Home Page]

*[http://www.the-brights.net/ The Brights' Net - Home Page]

==References==

==References==

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