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The
Humanist
Manifesto II
(watch
for the New Age, Politically
Correct "buzz-words" you have heard so much the past
several years!)
Preface
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A prayer-hearing God, assumed to
live and care for persons, to hear and understand their prayers, and
to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded
faith.
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humanism offers an alternative
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The next century can be and
should be the humanistic century
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Using technology, we can control
our environment, conquer poverty, markedly reduce disease, extend our
life-span, significantly modify our
behavior, alter the course of
human evolution and cultural development, unlock vast new powers
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Traditional moral codes fail
to meet the pressing needs of today and tomorrow.
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Humanity, to survive, requires
bold and daring measures.
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extend the uses of scientific
method, to build constructive social and moral
values.
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Only a shared world and global
measures will suffice.
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Humanism is an
ethical process
through which we all can move, above and beyond the divisive
particulars, heroic personalities, dogmatic creeds, and ritual customs
of past religions or their mere negation. (how
is humanism an "ethical process? according to ANY OF THE POSITIVE
DEFINITIONS?
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basis for united action --
positive principles relevant to the present human condition. They are
a design for a secular society on a planetary scale.
Religion
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begin with humans not God,
nature not deity
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reject traditional religious
morality
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no divine purpose or providence
for the human species
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No deity will save us; we must
save ourselves.
Ethics
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Ethics is autonomous and
situational needing no theological or ideological sanction. (This
STILL isn't what the DICTIONARY
says- after 30 years!)
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Ethics stems from human need and
interest.
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We strive for the good life,
here and now.
The
Individual
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intolerant
attitudes, often
cultivated by orthodox religions and puritanical cultures, unduly
repress sexual conduct.
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The right to birth control,
abortion, and divorce should be recognized.
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civilized society should be a
tolerant one.
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individuals should be permitted
to express their sexual proclivities and pursue their life-styles as
they desire.
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Moral education for children and
adults is an important way of developing awareness and sexual
maturity.
Democratic
Society
(Remember, the USA is a CONSTITUTIONAL
REPUBLIC, NOT a DEMOCRACY)
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individual's right to die with
dignity, euthanasia, and the right to suicide.
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committed to an open and
democratic society.
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must extend participatory
democracy in its true sense to the economy, the school, the family
(and it's TRUE SENSE is defined above in the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO).
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Alienating forces should be
modified or eradicated
(so much for "tolerance",
huh? They say- "We hate hate")
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separation of church and state
and the separation of ideology and state are imperatives (and
WHAT IS secular humanism if it IS NOT ideology, and are they NOT
seeking to CONTROL THE STATE?)
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alternative economic
systems. (such as Communism? or would
that be National Socialism? not many other choices out there for
economic systems!)
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democratize the economy (defined
above in the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO).
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minimum guaranteed annual
income. (another communist doctrine)
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concerned for the welfare of the
aged, the infirm, the disadvantaged, and also for the outcasts -- the
mentally retarded, abandoned, or abused children, the handicapped,
prisoners, and addicts (like Clinton and the
Democrats "concern". Like fleas care about dogs).
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universal education. (a
communist doctrine)
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Innovative and experimental
forms of education are to be welcomed. (social
and mental hygiene)
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energy and idealism of the young
should be channeled to constructive purposes (more
social and mental hygiene to INDOCTRINATE
the young to be
World Citizens)
World
Community
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deplore racial, religious,
ethnic, or class antagonisms. (while inciting
them and capitalizing on them for their purposes. See Democrats
above)
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we believe in cultural diversity
and encourage racial and ethnic pride (not
sovereign American pride)
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we envision an integrated
community
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critical of sexism or sexual
chauvinism (If you clicked on this link,
you might have noticed that the definitions also include "Excessive or
fanatical patriotism". See? Words DO MEAN SOMETHING)
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deplore the division of
humankind on nationalistic grounds. (and
that means what you think it means- One World Government- completely
clarified below)
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transcend the limits of national
sovereignty and to move toward the building of a world community in
which all sectors of the human family can participate.
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a system of world law and a
world order based upon transnational federal government.
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appreciate cultural pluralism
and diversity.
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no part of humankind can be
isolated from any other. Each person's future is in some way linked to
all. (exactly how doesn't need
explanation- it just IS, "somehow")
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commitment to the building of
world community, at the same time recognizing that this
commits us to some hard choices. (Trading
a NOBLE BIRTHRIGHT for a watery bowl of soup FOR NO REASON is a "hard
choice"! What
about those of us who CHOOSE to oppose it? Are we the
"alienating forces that should be
modified or eradicated"? Obviously so. I guess that's
why they need social and mental hygiene and
euthanasia).
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This world community must
renounce the resort to violence and force as a method of solving
international disputes. (I guess Osama
Bin Laden blew this plan out of the water, huh? They don't know
HOW TO HANDLE a movement that wants to kill everybody but their own
group that agrees with THEM. Oh- THAT IS what Secular Humanism
and One World Government wants to do anyway, isn't it?)
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peaceful adjudication of
differences by international courts and by the development of the arts
of negotiation and compromise. (and they all
lived happily ever after)
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War is obsolete. So is the use
of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.
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It is a planetary imperative to
reduce the level of military expenditures and turn these savings to
peaceful and people-oriented uses. (no, far
from obsolete, POWER COMES OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN, and they know
it. It's just "peace" if THEY HAVE THE GUNS- see?)
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The world community must engage
in cooperative planning concerning the use of rapidly depleting
resources. (because they have LOCKED
THEM ALL UP and won't allow looking for more)
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The planet earth must be
considered a single ecosystem. Ecological damage, resource depletion,
and excessive population growth must be checked by international
concord.
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The cultivation and conservation
of nature is a moral value; we should perceive ourselves as integral
to the sources of our being in nature. (who
defined THIS as a "moral value"? just because THEY SAY
SO?)
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free our world from needless
pollution and waste, responsibly guarding and creating wealth, both
natural and human. (STOP America from
building wealth and reduce us to the world poverty level)
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Exploitation of natural
resources, uncurbed by social
conscience, must end. (uncurbed
SOCIALISM must end)
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economic growth and development
worldwide in scope.
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moral obligation
of the
developed nations to provide assistance, including birth control
techniques, to the developing portions of the globe. (so
abortion is a GOOD moral value)
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World poverty must cease. Hence
extreme disproportions in wealth, income, and economic growth should
be reduced on a worldwide basis. (that's why
America must be morally and financially bankrupted to BRING US DOWN to
"world class standards)
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resist any moves to censor basic
scientific research on moral, political, or social grounds. (whose
"moral", "political', or "social" grounds?)
worldwide system of television
and radio
for information and education
Humanity
As a Whole
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parochial loyalties and
inflexible moral and religious ideologies transcended
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shared humane values
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commitment to tolerance (NOTE-
Obviously does not mean tolerance for those of us who have "parochial loyalties and
inflexible moral and religious ideologies")
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transcends the narrow
allegiances of church, state, party, class, or race in moving toward a
wider vision of human potentiality (See
what I told just you? How do you have a "wider vision of
human potentiality" with us Old Fashioned Patriotic "proud
to be American" Flag Waving Christians around? NOW- DOES
THE INSANE GARBAGE YOU SEE ON TV NEWS MAKE MORE SENSE?)
What more daring a goal for
humankind than for each person to become, in ideal as well as practice, a
citizen of a world community? |