PROMISE OF SALVATION
Naturalism is the denial that there is such a thing as magic or gods or God or
the supernatural. Atheism is disbelief or unbelief in God or gods. It implies a
rejection of magic as well because a living man with magical powers would be a
god in a sense. Who said you had to be dead or in Heaven to be a god?
Naturalism, when correctly understood, has the ability to change and heal the
world. It is the only way forward. Naturalism that concurs with all the rules of
commonsense carries the key to the only real solution for all life's problems,
healing of the ego. It works because it is simply love. Love means wanting to be
happy and finding your happiness in others and improving their lives. It does
not mean sacrifice like too many people think. You cannot respect others really
and fully and rationally without pure Atheism – even one wilful evil in you
defiles all the good you do for it means you only do good because you want to
and not because it really is good so it is beneath your own dignity. Fake good
is hypocrisy and self-deceit and is very harmful and is a magnet for evil.
If the mind is happy and healthy the body has the best chance of being happy and
healthy too. Unpleasant feelings are bad for you and happiness makes you work
harder to be healthy and produces health-promoting chemicals in your body.
Always look for the good in every situation and person and event and find hope
and reassurance in it.
The Gospel According to Atheism teaches secular humanism. Secular humanism is
not a system of dogma or a cult or a religion. It is a form of therapy – you are
not asked to believe but to try it out and test what it says. Atheism can be
warm, exciting and liberating. The cold and academic image it has is an
inaccurate one. When you have real wisdom in your head it does wonders for your
self-esteem. It will rocket! You can’t have self-esteem without thinking
positive.
Nobody tells you what to think or do – that would be against the fundamental
fact that you must love and worship yourself and never put anybody else over
yourself. You think about what the system says for yourself and decide if it is
right because if you don’t think for yourself you don’t have confidence in
yourself and that is wrong. Our negative thinking and our personal or emotional
defects all arise from a lack of commonsense. Humanism is the answer for it is
just pure commonsense.
Even simply reading this book can give you a sense of well-being and arouses
healing and happy energy in your body. The book gives comfort when read
frequently.
We will never be perfect but we can improve and we must be happy with ourselves
and allow ourselves a healthy amount of imperfection. We should change the way
our evil side manifests so that even it can benefit us. If you have a bad temper
you can give the evil a new direction so that you do something bad that does you
and others more good. Channel your evil into something that is a better kind of
evil. For example, it is better to get yourself to relish ignoring a bad person
than to let yourself lose your cool.
We need Humanism to make us less sick.
