When all else is stripped away: false faith and beliefs, greed, egotism, and destruction of the natural environment, what is left is an absence of belief and an application of pure reason. Words are only words but, for the time being, we shall call this concentration of reason 'Green Atheology’.

"The only real and genuine miracle is in the pure existence of Life itself. Without Life, Planet Earth would be just a barren ball of rock and the beauty of a starry night seen by no person or creature. We must all take joy in celebrating life in all its forms and discover the inspiration to preserve our fragile eco-systems with all our vigour!"

Imagine! If you had lived your whole life in a perfectly peaceful and loving environment in which you had never heard about the concept of a God but had been well educated in the Natural Sciences. Would you really take seriously anyone who tried to introduce to you the notion of a great and omnipotent Creator or of a faith-based religion without them first having showed you proof of the existence of such an entity? And if your world was relaxed, unhurried and perfectly in harmony with Nature and with an abundance of old but high quality human-made things to use or enjoy, would you really want to change it for a world full of pressure, ecological destruction, throwaway goods and instability in order to pursue the goal of obtaining ever-increasing material opulence, as is the target of most of humankind today?

"For the continuation of Life on Earth and for the Unification of Man and Womankind, we need a very different type of economical structure and also we must push back the boundaries of anti-religion with all our might if we are to at least hold in check the growing religious intolerances, religious fundamentalism and religious mis-education of our children. And if afterall there should turn out to be a Supreme Intellegence in the Universe, perhaps the most likely ones of us to be chosen by such an Entity for a communication would be those who pushed the hardest against current religions".

In the following text we will outline the ten stated objectives of the Green Atheological Society:
(1) To establish a framework within which people with both Green and Atheistical views can socialize and connect with one another.
(2) To bolster a pride and confidence in being an Atheist and in letting other people know. Also to encourage a mass 'coming out' of  people who would realize that they are Atheists rather than religious believers.
( 3) To campaign against the destruction and misery caused by wars between those of opposing religious views. ie. almost all current and recent wars.
(4) To promote recognition that the threatening environmental catastrophes such as climate change are caused by human activities and that stabilizing or reducing human population is an all-important factor in the survival of civilization as we know it. This work could involve publicizing to the world the possible dangers to Life on Earth posed by religions which forbid birth control.
(5) To study the Spiritual Nature of mankind and to establish a framework within which people can develop their innate 'spiritual attributes' without having to possess a belief in any type of god or gods.
(6) To encourage ecologically friendly low-energy-low-pollution lifestyles and to facilitate the forming of Green, non-religious communities with shared housing and, or,  shared communal facilities and buildings and free-space.
(7) To oppose the importance held by most Westerners in material values. To aim at re-establishing the values of sharing, of love for others, of group rather than personal priorities,   over the prevailing personal-material mindset.
(8) To develop a culture to compare with traditional ones enjoyed by adherents to the principal religions. This could include communal singing, communal dancing and and possibly rituals.  These could be synthesized from traditional cultures and religions, or contemporary culture, or newly invented.
(9) To construct and evolve the strongest possible polemic with which to argue for the reality of the non-existence of a god or gods.
(10) To develop and promote a philosophy of Green Atheology aimed at creating a harmonious, peaceful and sustainable  world.

The following statements constitute what is thought to be true by the Green Atheological Society and are intended to become a template for the basis of Green Atheology:

(a) The two most urgent aims of Humanity should be to unify our species enough to confine interstate and interfaith wars and conflicts to history and to greatly reduce the harm being done to our planet by human overactivity. These aims would be considerably more likely to be achieved without the divisions and hate brought about by religious differences, the distractions of following religious thought and the false ideas of causation of environmental events inspired by some religious belief.

(b) The existence of a Creator of Everything who is also a cosmic-transgalactic superintelligence, called God, is extremely unlikely. To say that 'God created the universe and that God has always existed' is even more fantastic than to say 'life has always existed'. The whole idea of God is archaic and out of touch with modern scientific knowledge. Furthermore, most or all of humankind will disbelieve in a personal God eventually, should our species survive long enough into the future for such a paradigm shift to happen.

(c) All plant, animal and human life evolved over thousands of millions of years from the first microscopic life that appeared on Earth. The statistical odds against the unaided forming of the first reproducing organisms are so high that it is likely that this event occurred only once, at one unique time in Earth's history and that no other life exists anywhere else in the Universe. Human intelligence could quite possibly be the only thinking, reasoning intelligence to exist anywhere in the Universe.

(d) As Green Atheologists,  we nurture the utmost respect for all of Nature. This includes our own bodies, which are also part of Nature. Most modern people eat a poorly balanced diet consisting mostly of processed food, which itself has been manufactured from produce grown on impoverished soils and sprayed with chemicals. Knowledge of the importance of a natural and healthy diet should be offered to everyone from an early age. To change to a more health promoting diet, the following considerations should be taken into account: Food should be rich in antioxidants. Food should be grown naturally without the use of chemical herbicides, pesticides or soil depleting chemical fertilizers. At least 40% of the daily human food intake should be of raw vegetables and fruit in order to obtain enough natural enzymes for good health . A good balance of all necessary nutrients should be contained in the diet. Foods should be chosen to ensure a slightly alkaline pH balance in the body since an acidic pH balance will often lead to a compromised level of health. By keeping ourselves naturally healthy, we can maintain a higher standard of biological and emotional living. We can also avoid dependency on medication which is costly and can lead to harmful side effects, can cause additional health problems and often only subverts the symptoms of the initial illness.

(e) All current economic systems are corrupt, wasteful, unfair, and have hidden agendas. They are not conducive to widespread human happiness and are helping to destroy our planet. Human happiness is greatly dependant on the giving and receiving of love and on contact and relations with other people. It also rests stongly on the freedom of expression, on freedom to follow one's own interests, on a good balance between work and play, and on health and adequate physical comforts. A new system is needed which focuses not on keeping the majority of people busy in order to buy products or services that they often don't really need (and thus funding the rich and elite and wrecking our planet), but to streamline the efficiency of delivering only what populations do really need. This could obviously reduce unnecessary consumerism and enable personal work to be kept to a minimum so that growth to fully integrated self-dependent and happy individuals can be fully focused on.

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