HSS top Facebook posts by virality

We have compiled a list of our most viral posts on Facebook to date, as parts of efforts to understand the humanist community better. We determined their virality based on the number of shares.

A few observations about these posts:

  1. Personal stories with good narratives on overcoming adversity and leaving religion
  2. Latest discoveries on evolved morality, on how we can be good without religion
  3. HSS actions to provide a secular voice, such as letters and seminars
  4. Studies on brain activity and predepositions towards superstition and morality
  5. Birthdays and famous quotes of famous thinkers

Highly shared posts

Parents who raise their kids without religion are doing just fine, studies say, possibly even better.

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Friday, August 14, 2015

Exciting news! Seminal wildlife documentary narrator David Attenborough has narrated a two part documentary on the wildlife in our little island.

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Monday, March 2, 2015

"You can think a religious belief is wrong without being intolerant. Tolerance is not synonymous with 'believing someone…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Monday, October 26, 2015

"Given the contrasting examples in Norway and the former Soviet Union, it is clear that atheism is not a cause of…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Thursday, November 12, 2015

Have you signed up for Darwin Day 2013? We will celebrate it on 23 Feb, Saturday, starting from 1.30pm. Join us at…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Saturday, January 26, 2013

Why do people sometimes feel 'ghosts' or 'spirits' around them? Scientists think they've found a neurological basis for this supernatural illusion.

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Friday, November 7, 2014

A genius passes on. American mathematician John Nash and his wife Alicia has died in a car crash. He is renowned for…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Sunday, May 24, 2015

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."- George Bernard Shaw, playwright and great thinker, on the importance of open-mindedness.

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Saturday, November 1, 2014

Our President Paul Tobin gave a presentation at a CENS workshop on 23 Oct to discuss social fault lines in Singapore. In…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Monday, November 2, 2015

"You won’t minimize the suffering of others (or of yourself) by saying that life will get better after you die. You…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Monday, September 15, 2014

TODAY reader says religious groups should not be allowed to conduct school workshops.

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Thursday, October 9, 2014

46% of South Koreans have no religion, yet the religious' ability to organize means that many atheists and non believers…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Our reply to a journalist's concern that 'the rise of atheism or those who are not religious might (hinder philanthropy)…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Do you know? Singapore occupies a special place in the history of evolutionary discovery. From 1854-1862, Alfred Russel…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Thursday, February 21, 2013

Happy 84th birthday to Peter Higgs, the brilliant British theoretical physicist whom the Higgs boson was named after….

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Wednesday, May 29, 2013

A dual-culture, free-thinking couple make their home in multi-cultural Singapore after many tribulations. A sweet story…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Saturday, February 14, 2015

"People can simultaneously recognize that, rationally, their superstitious belief is impossible, but persist in their…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Saturday, November 7, 2015

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”― Bertrand RussellHappy birthday to Russell, born 18…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Saturday, May 18, 2013

‘Our problem is that, in an entirely meaningless universe, our lives are entirely meaningful.’“There is meaning in the…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Sunday, August 16, 2015

"Once we became homo sapiens sapiens—not just tool-using humans but creative humans—we started developing and sharing…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Thursday, January 29, 2015

Dr Lee Wei Ling's column on atheism and compassion on page 35 of the Sunday Times today. She describes how she had to…

Posted by Humanist Society (Singapore) on Saturday, April 19, 2014

Special mention:

SG50 photo series (24 shares)