	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 4, FEAR - THE FATHER OF EVIL

The Fourth Principle of Self-love is seeing that fear of unhappiness is the cause of all human evil for you do evil for you think it is going to make you happy and fear is caused by ignorance. Because self-love or happiness is the root of all good, fear has to be the origin of evil as manifested by humankind.

The reason that love makes us happy is because it delivers us from fear.

If you are happy you treat others well and they are made happy by being around you and that makes you happier and feel safer in the world. The evil you do is caused by the fear of unhappiness. Since you have to love yourself to be happy, and happiness and self-love or self-esteem are exactly the same thing, it follows that if you develop a strong self-esteem you will not only feel you are a wonderful person but act it. Knowing how to be happy makes you happier for then you have the resources to make yourself happy and stay happy therefore ignorance is the cause of fear and its child, unhappiness. And fear is the root of all evil. The ignorance that causes fear is the ignorance that you should only love yourself and the ignorance concerning how best to achieve self-love. It is the ignorance that you are perfect as you are and ignorance also produces fear which leads to acts and thoughts of evil. We all fear what we do not understand and we are afraid of change because we are afraid of the new while we know the old better and consequently feel safer with the old. So that is where Humanism comes in. The philosophy is hoped to deliver you from ignorance and we are confident that it can! Our philosophy is the only way to salvation and merely knowing the philosophy and understanding it is a tremendous source of comfort for it gives hope.

Do not fight the evil that attracts you but simply see that it is a liar and promises happiness that it will not deliver. Just see it as bad and you won’t do it. To struggle with evil is to give evil power over you to inflict pain on you and to give it the hope of triumphing over you for it might win the struggle. To do evil even if it makes you happy for the rest of your life is to degrade yourself by becoming the vehicle for the origination of a force that has harmed you terribly and is against your dignity for that reason.

Love is often perverted into something that makes people harm themselves. Our job is to guide people to love themselves properly and this is the solution to all life’s problems.