<p><img width="1024" height="1024" src="https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast-1024x1024.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" decoding="async" srcset="https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast-1024x1024.png 1024w, https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast-300x300.png 300w, https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast-150x150.png 150w, https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast-768x768.png 768w, https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast-600x600.png 600w, https://firstunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/2025-01-18_Podcast.png 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Humanism isn&#8217;t the opposite of faith &#8211; it&#8217;s the opposite of authoritarianism. Unitarian minister Curtis Reese, a co-founder of the American Humanist Association, referred to humanism as the &#8220;religion of democracy&#8221; for a reason &#8211; because of our radical belief that truth, morality, and power do not rightly reside in an external source, as theistic&#8230;&#160;<a href="https://firstunitarian.org/podcasts/assembly-the-religion-of-democracy-with-fish-stark/" rel="bookmark">Read More &#187;<span class="screen-reader-text">Assembly: &#8220;The Religion of Democracy&#8221; with Fish Stark</span></a></p> <p>The post <a href="https://firstunitarian.org/podcasts/assembly-the-religion-of-democracy-with-fish-stark/">Assembly: &#8220;The Religion of Democracy&#8221; with Fish Stark</a> appeared first on <a href="https://firstunitarian.org">First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis</a>.</p>