Humanist Manifesto
Secular Humanism Humanist Manifesto Humanism - Communism - Socialism
1. The universe is self-existing and not created.
- 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2. Man is a part of nature and
that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.
- 7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
- and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
- and man became a living soul.
3. The traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected
- 26 And God said,
- Let us make man in our image,
(Three parts: Mind, Body and Soul)
4. Man’s religious culture and civilization,
are the product of a gradual development
due to his interaction with his natural environment
and with his social heritage.
- 30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
- and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,
5. Modern science
makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values.
6. The time has passed for theism,
deism, modernism, and the several varieties of “new thought”.
7. Nothing human is alien to the religious.
It includes labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation.
The distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.
8. The complete realization of human personality to be the end of man’s life
and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now.
- 16 For God so loved the world,
- that he gave his only begotten Son,
- that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
- but have everlasting life.
9. The humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.
10. There will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.
11. Man will learn to face the crises of life
in terms of his knowledge of their naturalness and probability.
12. Religion must work increasingly for joy in living,
13. All associations and institutions exist for the fulfillment of human life.
Religious institutions, their ritualistic forms, ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities
must be reconstituted as rapidly as experience allows,
in order to function effectively in the modern world.
14. Existing acquisitive and profit-motivated society
has shown itself to be inadequate
and that a radical change in methods, controls, and motives must be instituted.
A socialized and cooperative economic order must be established
to the end that the equitable distribution of the means of life be possible.
The goal of humanism is a free and universal society
in which people voluntarily and intelligently cooperate for the common good.
Humanists demand a shared life in a shared world.
15. Endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all
