The National
Secular Society General Principles
• The National Secular Society affirms that this life is the only one
of which we have any knowledge and human effort should be directed
wholly towards its improvement. It asserts that supernaturalism
is based upon ignorance and assails it as the historic enemy of progress.
•The National Secular Society
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 civilized state.
•Affirming that morality is social in origin
and application, the National Secular Society aims to promote the
happiness and well-being
of humanity.
•The National Secular Society
demands the complete separation of Church and State and the abolition
of all privileges
granted to
religious organizations.
•It seeks to spread education, to promote the
friendship of all peoples as a means of advancing universal peace
to further common
cultural interests and to develop the freedom and dignity of humanity.
