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Chapter 1 – A New View, A New Religion

The essence of religion, where it came from and where it is going – and where The Natural Religion fits into this.

1.1: Questioning our Existence.
1.2: What do Religions have in Common?
1.3: Religions in the Past.
1.4: Religion of the Future.
1.5: The Natural Religion – A Personal Choice.

Chapter 2 – Life

Life is the core of human existence. What is life, and why does it exist? This chapter is about how life works.

Chapter 3 – Before And After Life

Death and dying are the most important issues in all our lives. An honest and open discussion about a very personal, and often taboo, subject, and why death is as beneficial to us as birth is.

3.1: Taboos About Death.
3.2: When A Loved One Stops Living.
3.3: When We Ourselves Stop Living.
3.4: Implications Of The End Of Life.

Chapter 4 – Our Origins

Human evolution: how did we get our big brains? Will our success in the past secure us success in the future? This chapter is about why we are the way we are.

4.1: What Are We, And Why?
4.2: Our Ancestors.
4.3: Our Ecology.
4.4: The Human Evolutionary Experiment.
4.5: Essentially Human.

Chapter 5 – Our Personal Existence And Our Choices

The centre of each of our individual worlds is our own being. Our sense of self-awareness, our capacity to make right and wrong choices, and that simply being happy is not so simple, are all at the centre of our experience of existing.

5.1: Our Personal Being.
5.2: Making Choices.
5.3: Making Errors And Mistakes.
5.4: Being Happy.

Chapter 6 – Sex

Sex and reproduction is the meaning of human life. This chapter describes the biological basis of reproducing as well as why this is so personal and private. As the details of sex have so many consequences, and because embarrassment can hinder discussing them, they are dealt with here.

6.1: Our Main Task.
6.2: Two Sexes.
6.3: Reproducing Our Brain.
6.4: The Role of Human Sex.
6.5: Family Relationships.
6.6: Family Planning.
6.7: Our Sexual Practices.
6.8: The Future of Giving Life.

Chapter 7 – Populating The Planet

It took 150,000 years for human kind to grow to 1.5 billion people, and then it only took 100 years to explode to 6 billion. This is the most serious problem facing mankind today.

7.1: Success Of The Human Species.
7.2: Dangers Of Our Success.
7.3: Matching Population Size To Our Resources.
7.4: Are We Suited To Live In High Densities?
7.5: Limiting Our Populations.

Chapter 8 – Distributing Our Resources

We need resources to survive, and our economy is the way we share these. A fair sharing of resources is often not achieved as growing poverty and the economic downturn show. Our economic system supplies us with resources and we use money to do that, it should not be the other way around where we see our economy as a way to make money and use our resources to do that.

8.1: Our Resources Fuel Our Life.
8.2: Sharing Versus Ownership.
8.3: Wealth And Poverty.
8.4: Balancing Our Economy.
8.5: A Sustainable, Stable, And Diverse Economy. 

Chapter 9 – Our Social Life

So much of our lives depends on our political leadership. War and peace, poverty and wealth, freedom to achieve one’s potential, and people’s general quality of life, all depend on how our leaders govern, and how we allow our leaders to govern.

9.1: Humankind, A Social Animal.
9.2: Leadership.
9.3: Political Compromise.
9.4: War.
9.5: Future Politics.

Chapter 10 – Our Consciousness

Our human consciousness is amazing and unique. As our brains are very complex, their needs are many and varied. Just one of these needs is to question and understand, leading to religions, which explains why The Natural Religion was written.

10.1: Our Mental Needs.
10.2: Development Of Our Consciousness.
10.3: Our Social Emotional Needs.
10.4: The Natural Religion – A Product
And A Need Of Our Consciousness.