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The Harvard Humanist Community was shocked Thursday when their members were, in the carefully-chosen words of New York Times best-selling author Greg M. Epstein, blown off and excluded from an inter-faith memorial ceremony for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
We have friends and family who are in the hospital in critical condition, who nearly died, he told Raw Story. It wouldnt have been so difficult for those who organized the vigil today to make some kind of nod to us, and thats all we would have wanted.
The Harvard humanist chaplain and author of Good Without God explained that the exclusion of non-religious Bostonians was particularly shocking because someone dear to the Harvard Humanist Community was gravely wounded in the bombings.
Celeste Corcoran, who was caught in the blast with her daughter and subsequently lost both of her legs to amputation, was a volunteer for the Harvard Humanist Community, Epstein said. She was also something of an aunt to Sarah Chandonnet, the groups outreach and development manager and second senior-most member, he added.
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