	Gospel of Atheism
1	Salvation by atheism
2	What is self-esteem?
3	Why is self-esteem important?
4	How to love yourself
5	You want to be happy
6	You can be happy
7	To love yourself means loving yourself alone ultimately
8	Fear is the father of evil
9	Nobody makes you unhappy but you
10	Let happiness come
11	Be easy to please
12	You just need to see your worth
13	Egoism is the way to go!
14	Distracted selfishness is your salvation
15	See that you are not a sinner
16	Be your own person
17	PT 1 Only God you need is you!
17a	PT 2 Only God you need is you!
18	You have a will but it is not free in the religious sense
19	There is no free will and we don't really want it
20	Belief in fate is not really that bad
21	Liberation and guilt
22	Forgiveness in the popular sense is a snare!
23	Hatred in a spiritual disguise
24	Probability not possibility is what counts
25	Using reason correctly means protecting yourself correctly
26	There is no God - be your own God
27	Discard the oppressive God belief
28	Belief in God undermines your self-regard
29	Don't condone "God's" often cruel plan
30	Religion is harmful fantasy
31	Prayer is patronising
32	Harm of crediting revelation
33	Miracles are a toxic belief
34	Fast inner transformation for the atheist
35	Don't expect too much
36	Atheism in a positive way
37	Transforming your inner self
38	Feeling that life is meaningful
39	Mature optimism
40	Irresponsibility of the afterlife doctrine
41	Difference between right and wrong
42	Being fair
43	Value on human life
44	Can an egoist be a martyr for others?
45	Animal rights
46	Ways of being complicit in society's evil
47	Lying and stealing
48	Gossip is a plague
49	Need for social regulation
50	Proper relationship of church and state
51	Value of education
52	Evils of marriage
53	How to have a happy love life
54	Erotica is harmless and to be enjoyed
55	Overview, pillars of atheism
55a	Essentials of atheism
56	About Humanism
57	Humanism is not a religion
58	Atheists here are the rules if you want them!
59	Being an atheist in a religious world
60	Making friends for humanist atheism
61	Spread the good news of atheistic humanism
62	End goal of atheistic humanism
63	Theorems of atheistic humanism

PRINCIPLE 9, EGOISM IS THE WAY TO GO!

The Ninth Principle of Self-love is to see that you must do everything altruists say you must do but the only difference is to have respect for yourself. This way you manage to retain the benefits of altruism and improve on it by putting in some egoism. Egoism is good and harmless. Even if neither altruism or egoism is perfect, we should go for egoism for egoism is the best of the two.

To practise self-love properly and to win the blessings it gives you have to do EVERYTHING you do because you love solely yourself. You do not help the sick man lying on the street because it is your duty. Duty is a dirty word. You do it because you want to prove that you are good and not to others but to yourself though the positive feedback from others will help you see your goodness better. In plain language, you do it to feel or at least think better about yourself though you already feel good about yourself. You do it to open up your powers to make yourself happy by having this reminder about how good you are. That is a good thing only as long as you are sure you will not feel bad about yourself if you fail to be good. If that happens get up and make amends straight away. If you know the secret of happiness, which is to realise that you don’t need anything but yourself, you will manage to keep a firm hold on your high regard for yourself. When others ask for help and they really need it then help them because you see it as an invitation from them to love yourself by improving yourself and for you to feel you are making a good difference in the world. Make everything you do a gift to yourself telling yourself that you love yourself and are open to the pleasure of happiness because everything you do is for your own pleasing anyway even if it is something you feel you can’t get out of doing but the only trouble is we keep forgetting how to draw the best feelings out of what we do. In other words, you do what good you do not for others but for you.

When I help a person because I like them and go to a lot of trouble for it people say I am unselfish. This is not true and they know it. Liking is a self-centred act. It means I get something out of helping them. That is what I am doing it for. Let me explain. Liking you means only that I get pleasure from you. It is not you I value but what I get out of you.