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universism ‎(uncountable)

1. (philosophy) a movement advocating personal reason and experience and over faith and dogma
   • Universism is a modern rational religious philosophy that began in 2003 with princples laid out by Ford Vox. Universists choose their beliefs according to the dictates of their own life experience and reason.
   • Universism is a philosophy of The Universist Movement. Universism, though not a definitive philosophy, is a progressive, naturalistic worldview in which all meaning and purpose is understood through personal reason and experience; thus, being a religion of reason.
   • What Universism argues against is individuals believing that their truths apply to others - all of us are equals in terms of these enormous, world-shaping metaphysical questions. [http:// www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/faith/05/universist.shtml]

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