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Humanism principles:

• We are committed to the application of reason and science to the understanding of the universe and to the solving of human problems.
• We deplore efforts to denigrate human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation.
• We are committed to the principle of the separation of church and state.
• We are concerned with securing justice and fairness in society and with eliminating discrimination and intolerance.
• We want to protect and enhance the earth, to preserve it for future generations, and to avoid inflicting needless suffering on other species.
• We believe in enjoying life here and now and in developing our creative talents to their fullest.
• We believe in the common moral decencies: altruism, integrity, honesty, truthfulness, responsibility.
• We are deeply concerned with the moral education of our children. We want to nourish reason and compassion.
• We are citizens of the universe and are excited by discoveries still to be made in the cosmos.
• We believe in optimism rather than pessimism, hope rather than despair, learning in the place of dogma, truth instead of ignorance, joy rather than guilt or sin, tolerance in the place of fear, love instead of hatred, compassion over selfishness, beauty instead of ugliness, and reason rather than blind faith or irrationality.