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====Today==== Some of the US-based self-described Religious Humanist organizations currently active include: * '''The Humanist Society''' (formerly the Humanist Society of Friends)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.thehumanistsociety.org/history | title=Our History | the Humanist Society }}</ref> (this organization has its roots in the Quaker tradition but today is not exclusively tied to that tradition) * '''The Objector Church''' (founded in 2018 as an interfaith religious humanist community).<ref>{{cite web| url = https://couragetoresist.org/objector-church-announcement/| title = ''CourageRoResist.org'' "THE "OBJECTOR CHURCH" AND COURAGE TO RESIST" (Sept. 28, 2018)| date = 28 September 2018}}</ref> Many larger religious bodies include significant numbers of members and clergy who identify as being of humanist persuasion. These groups include * '''[[Unitarian Universalists]]''' β As many as half or more members of UU congregations have historically identify themselves as humanists when surveyed.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/documents/coa/engagingourtheodiversity.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-06-24 |archive-date=2016-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329060650/http://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/documents/coa/engagingourtheodiversity.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Humanist Unitarian Universalists {{!}} UUA.org |url=https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/beliefs/humanism |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=www.uua.org |language=en}}</ref> Humanist UU's are represented by the '''UU Humanist Association (HUUmanists)''' (formerly the Friends of Religious Humanism)<ref>{{Cite web |title=UU Humanist Association |url=https://www.huumanists.org/ |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=UU Humanist Association |language=en}}</ref> * '''[[Religious Society of Friends]] (Quakers)''' β Groups within the Quaker communities that hold a humanist perspective include '''Nontheist Friends'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nontheist Friends Network |url=https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/ |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=Nontheist Friends Network |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://americanhumanist.org/paths/quakerism/ | title=Humanist Common Ground: Quakerism | newspaper=American Humanist Association }}</ref> * '''Judaism''' β see [[Humanistic Judaism]], [[Reconstructionist Judaism]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=FAQs on Reconstructionist Approaches to Jewish Ideas and Practices {{!}} Jewish Reconstructionist Community|url=https://archive.jewishrecon.org/resource/faqs-reconstructionist-approaches-jewish-ideas-and-practices|access-date=2021-05-14|website=archive.jewishrecon.org|quote=Reconstructionism, which proposes a religious humanist theology, sees God as a power or process working through nature and human beings.}}</ref> Seeking to clarify that the word "religious" in Religious Humanism is not intended to imply a theistic or supernatural belief component, [[First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis]], where Dietrich first used the term, has now rebranded the movement as "Congregational Humanism".<ref name="auto"/>
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