	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

YOU HAVE A WILL BUT IT IS NOT FREE

Your will is the faculty with which you decide to do things and make choices. The term free will means that means it is under your control. Deniers of free will say you are programmed (programmed means fixed) by hidden forces and causes to do what you so they control you and not you them. Some people hold that you are partly controlled but still have free will.

Free choice or free will means that I could do bad or good and nothing in me or outside of me makes me do what I do though it may have an influence. Choice or free will implies that nothing makes me do what I do but myself. So free will says I create good or evil and nothing programs me to do it.

We reject the view that there is such a thing as free choice or free will. You do choose things – there is no doubt about that - but you only imagine that you could choose other than what you did for the programming inside your head made you will what you willed. So strictly speaking you had no choice. It is a choice only in the sense that that the desires that control you could have made you do the opposite but if all the causes were the same you would do the same thing.

Our “choices” are either programmed or not so to say they are programmed means that we are denying free will. (programmed means fixed).

If we are not programmed or caused to choose what we choose then it follows that our choices are uncaused (come out of nowhere) and are us working miracles.

The doctrine that our choices are not out of programming but come out of nowhere does not defend free will at all though it seems to. If my choices come from nowhere then they are something that happen to me at random and are nothing to do with me. No attempt to explain how we can be to blame for what we do really works so free will is impossible.

We know that all people are programmed by their past and present environment and by their genes to do what they do and they cannot do other than that though they feel as if they can so choice does not exist. The thinking that we do before we act and the feeling free while we perform the act are part of the programming.

We feel free because we do what we desire and our desires are programmed so what we do is programmed too. It is vital that that feeling be respected for it is crucial to happiness. When desires cause actions it is only natural that we will feel free because we feel we do what we want to do. What we feel has no relevance whatsoever in resolving the free will dispute.