What solution does it offer?

Return to the One God and submit to Him. Say the testimony of faith — all past sins are erased. Repent directly to God; no priest, no sacrifice. Then live by His guidance.

Reason, science, and humanistic ethics: understand the world through evidence, reduce suffering through knowledge and medicine, and build just institutions — humans solving human problems without waiting for heaven.

A method, not a salvation: follow reason as far as it will go, and do not pretend conclusions are certain when they are not. Huxley insisted agnosticism offers exactly this and no more; for hope, comfort, or purpose, agnostics say openly that one must look elsewhere.

God's own rescue: the New Testament teaches that God became human in Jesus Christ, died for humanity's sins, and rose from the dead — offering forgiveness and new life as a free gift of grace, received by faith (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8–9).

The covenant: God gives the Torah and its commandments as a way of life, repentance (teshuvah) as the way back after failure, and the promise of a final messianic redemption in which the world is set right.

Nirvana: the complete extinguishing of craving, hatred, and delusion, and with them the end of suffering and of the cycle of rebirth. The texts insist this is attainable in this very life.

Moksha: liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Traditions describe it differently — Advaita as realizing the self's identity with Brahman; the devotional schools as eternal communion with God — but all agree it ends the bondage of karma.

Turning the self around: remembering God's Name (nam simran) until the ego dissolves and the person lives facing God (gurmukh). The goal is union with God and release from rebirth — reached, the Gurus insist, by divine grace, not human effort alone.

State neutrality: government neither establishes, funds, nor forbids any religion, and treats citizens equally whatever they believe. Religious life is set free in society; political life rests on reasons all citizens can share.

Human effort guided by reason, science, and compassion: education, democratic institutions, human rights, and cooperation across borders. Manifesto II states it plainly: “No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.”

Government by consent, limited by a constitution: equal rights for every person, rule of law, separation of powers, free speech and free inquiry, and markets under law. Not a redeemed humanity — a framework in which fallible people can live together freely.

Equal rights, dignity, and opportunity for women and men, secured by reshaping laws and institutions — hooks defines feminism simply as 'a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.'

Self-determination: every nation free to govern itself, keep its language and culture, and shape its own laws — a world of independent nation-states rather than empires. Mill argued that free institutions work best where government and nationality coincide.