Status Updates From Life After Faith: The Case ...

"treating values as products of negotiation...they emerge from a project constitutive of humanity, that has made us what we are...I take the grounds of value to lie in the reasoning and conversations in which we engage with one another, as we struggle to cope with the fundamental features of the human predicament, in particular with our existence as social beings whose capacity to respond to others is limited"

Pursuit of doubt leads secular humanism to a position rarely made explicit: "soft atheism..." Soft atheism makes small concessions in the direction of agnosticism: while there is no basis for endorsing the transcendent, the bare possibility of some future justified acceptance cannot be eliminated. In the interim, we have no reason to treat the existence of a transcendent realm as a serious possibility..."

Hooked by the opening 2 lines: " Secular humanism begins in doubt, but doubt should be only the beginning. For anyone who has lived under the sway of religion, the rejection of religious commitment leaves a vacuum demanding to be filled."

Pretty much unreadable. Needlessly esoteric in prose.