An old story tells of a person who took a patch of rocks and weeds and turned it into a beautiful garden. A religious authoritarian neighbor saw the garden and tried getting in a plug for his religion. "Praise God for the beautiful garden He shared with you," said the neighbor.

The gardener admitted that he did depend on the rain and weather to get the garden to grow and then said, with a wink, "You should have seen the garden when God had it to himself."

Humanists recognize that making the most of our one and only life here on earth depends on human effort and intelligence, not on supernatural beings.

-- Derrick Strobl
The Central Ohio Humanist