Natural Humanists love and value human beings of all religious and moral beliefs, and of all guiding philosophies. They recognise the many similarities that exist between their thinking and celebrate all the significant good that’s done by people, throughout the world, because of their beliefs.
They believe that everybody, in every country of the world, should be tolerant of each other’s religious and cultural beliefs, behaviours and traditions and should support the right of all human beings to live their lives in the way they believe to be right. They recognise the knowledge, experience, compassion and achievements of religious leaders, but they consider these leaders, just like all other human beings, to be their equals.
They acknowledge and celebrate the fact that, although there may be differences in our opinions on certain things, far more importantly, there are also many similarities, in how we think, in what motivates us to do what we do, and in what we’re all ultimately trying to achieve.
Consequently, Natural Humanists believe that whenever human beings are trying to reach the same specific goals, it shouldn’t matter why they’re trying to achieve them, or how they each individually believe these goals should be reached, all that should matter is that they all work together to achieve them, for the common good.
Natural Humanists acknowledge, however, that religious organisations are perhaps the world’s most prolific groomers, enslavers and controllers of human beings, denying them the freedom to live their lives in healthy and natural ways, often threatening them with punishment by a ‘higher power’ if they ‘misbehave’, and potentially causing significant harm to every human being who chooses to, or is coerced into, being one of their followers, particularly children. They also appreciate the extent to which parents are themselves directly responsible for this potentially harmful grooming and control of their own children, or for allowing and facilitating this grooming of their children by other people, however well-intentioned this may be.
Whatever a human being’s religious beliefs might be, however, Natural Humanists ask people of all religions and belief systems to consider adopting, into their own lives, any Natural Humanist values beliefs or practices, which don’t go against their own beliefs, or the teachings of their own religion, or which are one way of enabling them to live their life in a way that their own religion encourages or requires them to do. They acknowledge that celebrating each other’s common values and encouraging, enabling and celebrating each other’s putting into practice of these values, can benefit us all.