	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 12, BE YOUR OWN PERSON

The Twelfth Principle of Self-love is that you must not worry about what others think but just do good so that what bad things they think become insignificant. This involves the abandonment of the concept of a nosey God.

To worry about what others think too much is trying to put the approval of others before yourself. You alone are the reason why you feel that way about their approval so you can change yourself to do without it. It is a sure indication of perverted self-esteem. It is the same if you worry about what God thinks. Since it is what you think about you that matters, cut all ties with all the gods that humanity has invented. If you be a blessing in the lives of others from day to day you will find that their disapproval won’t scare you for there is so much good that makes any real or imagined wrong you are accused of fail to make you downcast. Why should it? It is only a drop of dirt in a well of pure water. To stop yourself being hurt by the disapproval of others you must do good works and be conscious that their opinion is not necessarily right and that they are degrading and ultimately embarrassing themselves by trying to manipulate you.

Find people who may accept you for what you are. They might be counsellors or whatever but remember that they are there for you and that will help you. You will develop self-esteem faster if you make friends but you must make sure that you will outgrow needing them – they are only to help you get you to stand on your own two feet by yourself. The proper relationship with them is when you don’t need them but have them as reminders that you are an okay person so that you and they can enjoy being together.