Clifton R.

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1. Faith is a weakness, not a virtue.
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As a means for apprehending truths about existence, believing without evidence is a severely unsound approach. Wishing and gut feeling no matter how strong or heartfelt are insufficient, unreliable, and far too easily misleading to justify believing in extraordinary claims.

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Fundamentally, worship requires consigning your will to the object of your worship. To worship is to abdicate your own moral agency. Even if God were to exist, such a requirement would be morally reprehensible, for individual moral agency is one of our most precious capacities.

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One need not posit the existence of gods or devils to recognize that some behavior is moral and some is immoral. Even a concept such as evil can be understood outside of religious reference to describe actions in which the common humanity of another individual has been denied.

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The preservation of a society relies on the cooperative interactions of its constituent individuals. In an otherwise indifferent universe, it is kindness that alleviates the loneliness, provides the glue to bind society together, and affords the greatest chance for happiness.

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Divine Grace refers to the unearned bestowal of God’s favor on us. The absence of God does not mean the absence of grace. Rather, we understand that Human Grace, the unearned goodness and generosity that we bestow on each other, is the true grace and the only one that matters.

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7. This life is the only life, so make the most of it.
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No feature of the universe may be more inscrutable than the fact of your own existence. Life is rare. Life is short. Life is precious beyond measure. There is no afterlife. One chance at life is all any of us gets. Remember that for your sake and for the sake of those around you.

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The brevity of life does not suggest living only for today, regretting nothing from yesterday and preparing nothing for tomorrow. This is a fallacy for both the life of an individual and human civilization as a whole. You have a mind capable of both memory and planning. Use it.

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9. Always strive to do better than you have done.
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Obviously, no human is perfect. Making the most of this life obligates one to work toward improving oneself. Deterioration or stagnation is unacceptable. Improvement of one’s moral choices in addition to one’s physical, intellectual, and emotional life should always be the goal.

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Societal improvement is as important as individual improvement. Only we can define what it means to be human, and only we can steer the course of civilization. For however much time humanity has in the universe, we must all work together to guide the ship to the brighter shore.

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Our understanding of the natural world must come from an evidence-based approach, not from superstitions and wishful thinking. It must be based on a continual, logical process of observation, measurement, experiment, and refinement. We concede the limitations of our knowledge.

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