Bright Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The term bright, used as a noun, is a neologism invented by Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell in 2003 as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various kinds of non-superstitious people. They define the word as follows:

A bright is a person whose worldview is naturalistic - free of supernatural and mystical elements. A bright's ethics and actions are based on a naturalistic worldview.

The idea has been publicised by Richard Dawkins in an article[1] for The Guardian, and by Daniel Dennett in the New York Times.

Part of the inspiration to seed a positively laden term came from the modern usage of the word "gay" to mean homosexual. The project borrows heavily from the theory of memes.

Some people (both religious and non-religious) have objected to the term because they read it as as implying that the non-religious are more intelligent ("brighter") than the religious. There was a similar backlash early in the life of the word "gay": for example the satirical magazine Private Eye ran a cartoon strip called "The Sads" for many years.

A different movement that aims to unite a variety of philosophies including atheism, deism, agnosticism, pantheism and transcendentalism advocates the use of the term "Universist".

External links

• The Brights Net — website set up by Geisert and Futrell to publicise their idea

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