This is essentially how I choose to live my life, but to follow it stringently or to say "I am a Humanist" would be hypocritical because I'm a farmer - we do have 'dominion' over animals on our farm and slaughter them etc as well as farm the land that was cleared for that purpose (although in my defense we do farm as environmentally friendly as we can with minimum tillage etc). I am all for what they are going to do in VIC schools and I really hope that they see fit to introduce the same here in NSW. BUT I would still make my children attend Scripture classes as they do now because even though I am not religious, DH and I think it is important that they attend if only to learn that other people have a different belief system to what we do. I think my eldest child in particular would thrive in a class based on Humanism - it would raise all the things that he often ponders over with me. I think it's important that schools embrace this addition to education because it does give us as parents choice in how we want our children taught outside the home. However I do not agree with Religious education being taught in schools as a defined religion (basically where all the nitty-gritty of religious core beliefs are taught such as Christianity and Catholocism) as Church and State should be kept separate and if you want your child to have a religious education, then you send them to a religious school kwim? But then if you wer that way inclined you would be more likely to send them to a religious school in the first place.