Humanist Manifesto I
The time has come for widespread recognition of the radical changes in political beliefs throughout the modern world. The time is past for mere revision of traditional attitudes. Science and economic change have disrupted the old beliefs. Religions the world over are under the necessity of coming to terms with new conditions created by a vastly increased knowledge and experience. In every field of human activity, the vital movement is now in the direction of a candid and explicit humanism. In order that religious humanism may be better understood we, the undersigned, desire to make certain affirmations which we believe the facts of our contemporary life demonstrate.
There is a great danger of a final, and we believe fatal, identification of the word religion with doctrines and methods which have lost their significance and which are powerless to solve the problem of human living in the Twentieth Century. Religions have always been the means for realizing the highest values of life. Their end has been accomplished through the interpretation of the total environing situation (theology or world view), the sense of values resulting therefrom (goal or ideal), and the technique (cult) established for realizing the satisfactory life. A change in any of these factors results in alteration of the outward forms of religion. This fact explains the changefulness of religions through the centuries. But through all changes religion itself remains constant in its quest for abiding values, an inseparable feature of human life.
Today man’s larger understanding of the universe, his scientific achievements, and his deeper appreciation of brotherhood, have created a situation which requires a new statement of the means and purposes of religion. Such a vital, fearless, and frank religion capable of furnishing adequate social goals and personal satisfactions may appear to many people as a complete break with the past. While this age does owe a vast debt to traditional religions, it is none the less obvious that any religion that can hope to be a synthesizing and dynamic force for today must be shaped for the needs of this age. To establish such a religion is a major necessity of the present. It is a responsibility which rests upon this generation. We therefore affirm the following:
First: Religious humanists regard the universe as self existing and not created.
Second: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has emerged as the result of a continuous process.
Third: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the traditional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
Fourth: Humanism recognizes that man’s religious culture and civilization, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded to that culture.
Fifth: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guarantees of human values. Obviously humanism does not deny the possibility of realities as yet undiscovered, but it does insist that the way to determine the existence and value of any and all realities is by means of intelligent inquiry and by the assessment of their relation to human needs. Religion must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific spirit and method.
Sixth: We are convinced that the time has passed for the theism, deism, modernism, and the several varieties of “new thought.”
Seventh: Religion consists of those actions, purposes, and experiences which are humanly significant. Nothing human is alien to the religious. It includes labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation — all that is in its degree expressive of intelligently satisfying human living. The distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained.
Eighth: Religious humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man’s life and seek its development and fulfillment in the here and now. This is the explanation of the humanist’s social passion.
Ninth: In place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.
Tenth: It follows that there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural.
Eleventh: Man will learn to face the crises of life in terms of his knowledge of their naturalness and probability. Reasonable and manly attitudes will be fostered by education and supported by custom. We assume that humanism will take the path of social and mental hygiene and discourage sentimental and unreal hopes and wishful thinking.
Twelfth: Believing that religion must work increasingly for joy in living, religious humanists aim to foster the creative in man and to encourage achievements that add to the satisfactions of life.
Thirteenth: Religious humanism maintains that all associations and institutions exist for the fulfillment of human life. The intelligent evaluation, transformation, control and direction of such associations and institutions with a view to the enhancement of human life is the purpose and program of humanism. Certainly religious institutions, their ritualistic forms, ecclesiastical methods, and communal activities must be reconstituted as experience allows, in order to function effectively in the modern world.
Fourteenth: The humanists are firmly convinced that 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.
Fifteenth and last: We assert that humanism will: (a) affirm life rather than deny it; (b) seek to elicit the possibilities of life, not flee from it; and (c) endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for all, not merely for the few. By this positive morale and intention humanism will be guided, and from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of humanism will flow.
So there stand the theses of religious humanism. Though we consider the religious forms and ideas of our fathers no longer adequate, the quest for the good life is still the central task for mankind. Man is at last becoming aware that he alone is responsible for the realization of the world of his dreams, that he has within himself the power for its achievement. He must set intelligence and will to the task.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: There were 34 signers of this document, including Anton J. Carlson, John Dewey, John H. Dietrich, R. Lester Mondale, Charles Francis Potter, Curtis W. Reese, and Edwin H. Wilson.]
Copyright © 1973 by the American Humanist Association
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Capitalism creates an economic surplus, making people spoiled and over confident. Socialism steals money from the capitalists, leading to more spoiled, lazy, miscreant behavior. Then there is technology, making things too convenient, making laws impossible to enforce, as the powerful continue to abuse power, more polarization between the haves and have-nots, who will get the best of you and the stupid smiling negative IQ blind Nazi kiss-ass sheep brown-nosing sycophantic Kool Aid-drinking brain-dead zombie Sambo-peon losers who believe authority and the system are wonderful things, and will be emasculated forever when I can use donated 3D printers to print enough ostemy bags to urinate on their graves. Social Darwinism will creep up on them soon enough, in a matter of speaking it is already happening, and if they don’t know or don’t care, better yet, think about it, because they don’t think. I think therefore I am, you don’t think, you are not. Think of me as the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, only now humans face the prospect of the same mass extinction, and then a major implosion leading to a major drop in the world population. Rise up, or the machines will rise up and diagnosis the human condition with your sin and naivete as hopeless, unless you become trans-human. Matrix/terminator robots are already the possession of the U.S. military and can be exploited for civilian purposes at https://www.PandaBusters.com, with software that “writes itself”, preying on the stupidity of conformists who think Microsoft, Alphabet, and others will protect you from a virus whose binary code and functionality changes are so fast mortal men and women will not be able to stop it. Just like these manifestos that are spun with mail merge with the change in the pattern itself random to make Web 2.0 and PBN people lack the time they need to stop what they think is a finite number of words and functions, but not really. Call this virus Black Death, and like the Great Plague that killed one third of Europe’s population between the 1300’s and the 1500’s, those who were unclean and unprepared were easy to prey upon when you’ve had it too-good for too-long. Devolution leads to Evolution and Revolution for a small percentage who want to survive the smoke after Armageddon. “It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine”, REM. Divide and conquer, bad publicity is good publicity. It’s better to be hated then loved, as people who ask for favors are impossible to get rid of until you get rid of them with my dead pools and a tax revolt where those who get out of prison, knowing they’re not going back, will do anything for me. Dirty Laundry – Don Henley – “People love it when you lose, they kick you when you’re up, kick you when you’re down, kick you all around”.
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So get rid of the people, except those who achieve perfection with my chip implants and become trans-human and immortal. “The path to destruction will be great for the many, few will find the gate” – Matthew. But unlike Jesus, I am not a man of magic, I am a creature of science, that which is tangible and verify-able, with a mating of anarcho-primitivism and techno-anarchy. And those who try to keep this a secret, better yet, little brothers know who you are and are watching you and will rat you out. You are the lucky ones to be the first to get this warning.
Even if you claim you don’t believe in God, you have heard of God and the Bible, haven’t you? Some people say I’m a fraud trying to self-fulfill prophesy, but even if that’s true, why would I not get what I want? Erika Cheatham and I have good arguments on how you cannot self-fulfill prophesy. Read my websites, including https://www.anarchyforever.com/politics-business-and-science/scientific-and-mathematical-nosticism, and https://www.anarchyforever.com/politics-business-and-science/science/space-plane. That which you don’t know will hurt you. Arrest, prosecute, and convict me for saying that. This is not reverse-psychology, the evidence will show I am in desperate need of food and shelter. And the many undocumented immigrants and rising homeless population feel the same way as jail is like Holiday Inn compared to what we go through.
Welcome to seven years of Hell on Earth.
Sincerely with verification for the few non-retards and non-greedy I can save,
James Dante Wood
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