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GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

First: Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not cre-
ated.
Second: Humanism believes that man is a part of nature and that he has
emerged as the result of a continuous process.
Third: Holding an organic view of life, humanists find that the tradi-
tional dualism of mind and body must be rejected.
Fourth: Humanism recognizes that man's religious culture and civiliza-
tion, as clearly depicted by anthropology and history, are the product of
a gradual development due to his interaction with his natural environ-

ment and with his social heritage. The individual born into a particular
culture is largely molded by that culture.
Fifth: Humanism asserts that the nature of the universe depicted by
modern science makes unacceptable any supernatural or cosmic guaran-
tees of human values...
Sixth: We are convinced that the time has passed for theism, deism,
modernism, and the several varieties of "new thought." 35
In the above articles, we see the expression of a common false philos-
ophy that manifests itself under such names as materialism, Darwinism,
atheism and agnosticism. In the first article, the materialist dogma of the

eternal existence of the universe is put forward. The second article states,
as the theory of evolution does, that human beings were not created. The
third article denies the existence of the human soul claiming that human
beings are composed of matter. The fourth article proposes a "cultural
evolution" and denies the existence of a Divinely ordained human nature

(a special human nature given in creation). The fifth article rejects Allah's
sovereignty over the universe and humanity, and the sixth states that it is
time to reject "theism," that is belief in Allah.
It will be noticed that these claims are stereotypical deceptions, typi-
cal of those circles that are hostile to true religious morality. The reason for
this is that humanism is the main foundation of anti-religious sentiment.

This is because humanism is an expression of "man's reckoning that he

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