Humanist Manifesto

1. The universe is self-existing and not created.

2. Man is a part of nature and

that he has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

3. The traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected

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.

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.

NINTH: In the place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer

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

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