To establish such a religion is a major necessity of the present. It is a responsibility which rests upon this generation. The traditional dualism of spirit and body must be rejected. The individual born into a particular culture is largely molded by that culture. Religion must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of scientific procedure.
Nothing human is alien to the religious.
It includes labor, art, science, philosophy, love, friendship, recreation all that is in its degree expressive of intelligently satisfying human living. The distinction between the sacred and the secular can no longer be maintained. Religious humanism considers the complete realization of human personality to be the end of man's life and seeks its development and fulfillment in the here and now. This is the explanation of the humanist's social passion. In place of the old attitudes involved in worship and prayer the humanist finds his religious emotions expressed in a heightened sense of personal life and in a cooperative effort to promote social well-being.