Secularism affirms that this life is the only one of which we have any knowledge and human effort should be directed wholly towards its improvement.
Affirming that morality is social in origin and application, secularism aims at promoting the happiness and well-being of mankind. Secularism demands the complete separation of church and state and the abolition of all privileges granted to religious organisations.
Secularism affirms that progress is possible only on the basis of equal freedom of speech and publication; that the free criticism of institutions and ideas is essential to a civilised state.
It asserts that supernaturalism is based upon ignorance and assails it as the historic enemy of progress.
It seeks to spread education, to promote the fraternity of all peoples as a means of advancing universal peace to further common cultural interests and to develop the freedom and dignity of mankind.
To remove an impediment to these objectives, we demand the complete separation of church and state and the abolition of all privileges granted to religious organisations.
These are the common goals of secularists everywhere.