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Secularist organizations promote the view that moral standards should be based solely on concern for the good of humanity in the present life, without reference to supernatural concepts, such as God or an afterlife, any desire for doing good as a reward after death, or any fear of punishment for not believing after death. The term ''secularism'', as coined and promulgated by George Jacob Holyoake, originally referred to such a view.〔"Secularism". ''Oxford English Dictionary'', Second Edition. Oxford University Press, 1989.〕 ''Secularism'' may also refer to the belief that government should be neutral on matters of religion, and that church and state should be separate. The term is here used in the first sense, though most organizations listed here also support secularism in the second sense. == Background == Secularists, and their organizations, identify themselves by a variety of terms, including agnostic, atheist, bright, freethinker, humanist, nontheist, naturalist, rationalist, or skeptic.〔The Secular Coalition for America, which has been (identified ) by Brights.net as representing the interests of "secularist organizations", describes its constituency as "nontheistic Americans", including those who go by the labels "atheist, humanist, freethinker, agnostic, skeptic, bright, ignostic, materialist, and naturalist, among others." (Who does the Secular Coalition for America represent? ) at the (Secular Coalition for America website ) (Accessed 5 April 2008)〕〔Some less common secularist labels include: apatheist, godless (in the non-pejorative, literal sense), ignostic, infidel (or unbeliever), heathen, materialist, or realist.〕 Despite the use of these various terms, the organizations listed here have secularist goals in common. Note that, while most of these organizations and their members consider themselves irreligious, there are certain exceptions (Ethical Culture, for example). In some jurisdictions, a provincial or national humanist society may confer upon Humanist officiants the ability to conduct memorial services, child naming ceremonies or officiate marriage — tasks which would be carried out by clergy in most organised religions.〔(Humanist Canada: Humanist Weddings )〕〔(American Humanist Association: Humanists Stand Ready to Perform Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies )〕〔(The Humanist Society Listing of Humanist Celebrants )〕
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