My religion:
 

   The meaning of my life is a matter which I determine.

   The following three principles work well throughout a wide range
of circumstances.

     1. I intend to believe only what is true.
     2. I am the only legitimate authority over my own life and myself.
     3. I need to do what is in my own enlightened self interest.

     That is my religion.

     Those three principles are the religion in its entirety. Everything else 
is commentary. 

   They are brief, simple, easy to understand, and they are
not infinite in number. For me they work better than anything I have
found in any of the world's other religions. They are pragmatically
realistic, not based on superstitious misunderstandings.

   What about the popular religious idea that everything is actually 
united and that it and we combined together are all just one divine
being?

   That is a mistake. It is a failure to understand what is real.

   I am complete as that which I am, even though I am one human 
individual. It is the idea of being at unity with everything that exists
that is incorrect. Such ideas are superstitious misunderstandings of
real phenomena which appear to validate them but which actually
do not.

   I am not trying to make it seem that I am holy and you are not.
The principles are written in a way that no matter who says them, 
that is who they are about.


Robert Hampton Burt
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