	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 10, DISTRACTED SELFISHNESS IS YOUR SALVATION

The Tenth Principle of Self-love is that when doing kind deeds you will be happier if you forget what is in it for you and this act of forgetting is itself an act of self-love. When you have problems no matter how small it always helps to get your mind off yourself by keeping busy. This is a selfish act for you seek the pleasure of forgetting about what bothers you.

How does this square with saying that we must not do good works to earn praise and self-esteem but do them to remind us how good we are for that is trying to get something out of it for ourselves? But you only do things because you desire to and want gratification. You always want to feel good about yourself and this is the only exception. That is why you can help an ingrate and still be an egoist. It is easier to do good to be able to perceive yourself as good than it is to do good to get other people’s thanks or their money or favours. It’s more satisfying and therefore more selfish in the good way.

It is when you forget about what good doing good to others will do for you that you reap quality happiness and become happy with yourself. The reason is that desire is pain because it means wanting what you do not have yet and when you put it out of your mind you get the happiness you crave. Also, the best happiness is got by being happy in the present moment for to focus too much on the future is scary for you don’t even know if you will get it and you are more sure of the present moment. Yes you are doing good to make yourself happy and you are loving only yourself by doing this good but you are forgetting about the results IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THAT HAPPINESS. You are still doing good just to make yourself happy. Self-esteem is not feeling brilliant about yourself all the time. Self-esteem is forgetting thrills in order to develop personal peace of mind. If you are unhappy take your mind off yourself by going out and doing something for others and in time your mind will be purified of the dross that afflicts it.

We Humanists are hedonists, that is, we believe right and wrong are about having fun and avoiding suffering. We practice a form of hedonism that is designed to maximise the happiness we can have in this world for ourselves and everybody else too. We practice individualism the only way it can be properly practised. We are materialists because we value our lives in this world and our feelings. Our lives and our feelings are material things. We are even more materialists than those who love money for unlike them we know how to get the best out of being materialistic.