The one of the 34 original signers being John Dewey, the Father of "Modern Education"
- No God
- Self- existing universe
- Evolution
- Man has no soul
- Man's religious culture and civilization product of his natural environment
- Man's fulfillment in the here and now
- promote social well-being
- there will be no uniquely religious emotions and attitudes of the kind hitherto associated with belief in the supernatural
- 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.
- 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.
- So stand the theses of religious humanism.... we consider the religious forms and ideas of our fathers no longer adequate
- 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