Secular humanism is the main branch of humanism. On its surface, secularism tends to reject supernaturalism, thus conflicting with most religions. Secularism is not opposed to religion, but to religious law, whereby religion proposes to impose its doctrines upon all of its citizenry, dismissing full freedom of religion. Secular simply means keeping separate the common government from individualistic religion so that any rules developed under secularism can be applied universally.
Secular Humanism can be (over) simplified thus:
- Humans matter and can solve human problems
- Science, free speech, rational thought, democracy and freedom in the arts go together
- There is no supernatural
- Humanist Manifesto I (1933)
- Humanist Manifesto II (1973)
- A Secular Humanist Declaration (1980)
- A Declaration of Interdependence (1988)
- IHEU Minimum Statement on Humanism (1996)
- Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for a New Planetary Humanism (2000) condensed version
- The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
- Amsterdam Declaration (July 2002)
- Humanist Manifesto III (Humanism And Its Aspirations) (2003)
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