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

     Those three principles are my 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 we and the universe are all just combined together
as 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 such a way that they are about whoever
is reading them or saying them.


Robert Hampton Burt
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