No, It Really Isn't

Michael Lind suggests that:

The equivalent of the Nicene Creed for secular humanists is the "Humanist Manifesto," published in 1933. Signed by the philosopher John Dewey and a number of now-forgotten professors and clerics, it called for a "religious humanism."

This is similar to making the argument that because H.G. Wells used the phrase "liberal fascism" for a week or two, boring his friends in the process, before rejecting and calling for the execution of Mosby's Blue Shirts modern liberalism must be fascistic.  I understand, of course, that Dewey is more important than Well, but the fact of the matter is that most humanists don't, in fact, belong to an organized church of the supreme being sort of an affair.