User:Niele~enwiki/Humanism (life stance)
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Humanism is a comprehensive life stance that upholds human reason, ethics, and justice, and rejects supernaturalism, pseudoscience, and superstition. This article uses the words Humanism and Humanist (with a capital H and no adjective such as "secular"[1]) to refer to the life stance and its adherents, and humanism (with a small h) to refer to other related movements or philosophies. While this convention is not universal among all Humanists, it is used by a significant number of them, and for purposes of this article, helps distinguish between Humanism as a life stance and other forms of humanism.
Humanism has appeal to agnostics, atheists, deists, nontheists, empiricists, freethinkers, naturalists, rationalists, scientific skeptics and secularists. [citation needed]
Those who call themselves Humanists are a relative minority—numbering between four[2] and five[3] million people worldwide in 31 countries.