Humanity is One The material below is copyrighted. Feel free to view or print it for personal use. This second principle of monism flows naturally from the first. If all is one and one is all, then humanity is a part of God, an expression of divine oneness.
Humans are a kind of concentrated cosmic energy who create their own reality.
Belief that humans are divine, and essentially good, explains today's quest for personal spiritual discovery and the hope that we can create heaven on earth. This monistic humanism becomes a path to religious utopia. Already in a 1983 issue of the Humanist we see a deeply religious view of humanism replacing atheism. The article asks classroom teachers to wage a battle for the future of humanity. By finding God in ourselves, monists hope to break down the divisions in our world and accomplish God's loving work by uniting with one another.