Subject ILCAF Working resolution, Washington DC - June,4, 2008
Sent Date 07-01-2008 1:33:10 PM
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To Swami Manavatavadi <manavatavadi@lycos.com>
Dear Friends and Fellows,
The International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers (ILCAF),
meeting in Washington, DC on 4 June 2008, resolved to begin preparatory debate towards
the proposed formation of an International Organization of Freethought in Norway in
2011.
Please find here (in both Word and PDF format) the Working resolution adopted
after a large debate by the June 4 session in Washington, DC.
Keep in touch and best secular wishes,
For the ILCAF founding members,
Philippe Besson
http://cilalp.ouvaton.org/
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International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers
Working Resolution adopted at Washington D.C. on June 4, 2008
Founded on July 4, 2005, at the World Congress of Free Thinkers and Atheists in
Paris, in close cooperation with the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), the
International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers, meeting in
Washington DC, USA, on June 4, at the initiative of American Atheists (USA),
National Secular Society (Great Britain) and the Libre Pensée (France), submits
the following proposals to all Atheists and Free Thinkers organizations across the
world.
- Is the struggle for the separation of Religions and the States only limited to
a struggle for Atheists and Free thinkers to get the same undemocratic privileges as the
Churches, or is it the affirmation of equal rights and duties and for the abolition of any
religious rule?
-Religious oppressionis the dogmatic corollary of economical, social, cultural
and political oppression and it justifies intellectual degradation, social subservience and
political subjugation.
-Consequently,complete emancipation of humankind must be the goal for Atheists
and Free Thinkers organizations, because they reject the triple yoke: "the excessive
rule of authority in religious matters, privilege in political matters and capital in
economical matters"(World Congress of Freethought of Rome in 1904).
-Is it not necessary,inorder to reach this goal, to aim at genuine international
cooperation between groups, organizations and individuals who agree on this demand,
because the separation of Religions and the States is not only a national issue but it has
also international implication in every field?
CILALP/ILCAF was set up to create a communication and cooperative point of
junction among Atheists and Free Thinkers organizations in different countries aiming at
the same goal. Many people share those views but numbers do not have a say unless they
are united in organization and led by understanding. International cooperation for
a common goal.
The International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers claims its support for
humanism, freed from dogmas and religions, on an international scale, as the
indispensable means to conquer human liberty and dignity, and the strict
separation of Religion and State in every country as the indispensable instrument to attain
absolute freedom of conscience.
ILCAF/CILALPis complementary – and not rival – to all national and international
organizations who fight for atheism, free thought, humanism, secularism and
rationalism.
The aim of ILCAF/CILALPis to improve international cooperation between Atheists and
Freethinkers which is indispensable to reach our common goals.
That is why the following undersigned citizens, organizations and individuals,
Members of the International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers, gathered in
Washington DC, USA on June 4, 2008 :
Christopher Arntzen(Washington DC, USA), Zelda Bailey(Queensland, Australia),
Philippe Besson (Libre Pensée, France), Remus Cernea (Romania), Ralph Dumain
(Washington DC, USA), Conrad Goeringer (American Atheists, USA), Geraldo Adriano Godoy
de Campos (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Bobbie Kirkhart (California, USA), Josh Kutchinsky(Great-
Britain), Jacques Lafouge(Libre Pensée, France), Roger Lepeix (Libre Pensée, France), Swami
Manavatavadi (India), Shirley Moll (Minnesota, USA),Karen Owens(Georgia, USA), Steve
etersen(Minnesota, USA), David Rand(Quebec, Canada), Terry Sanderson(NSS, Great
Britain), Max Wallace(New South Wales, Australia), Fred Whitehead(Kansas, USA), Keith
Porteous Wood (NSS,Great-Britain) submit to the free debate of all, the proposal of a
preparatory debate for the foundation, in Norway in 2011, in friendly relation with IHEU,
of an International Organization of Freethought.
They propose that the ILCAF/CILALP website, enriched with international exchange
of information and proposals, should be one of the means through which an
international debate be led with a view to this foundation.
Made at Washington DC, June 4,2008
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