Tenets

ten·et

— n
a belief, dogma, principle, or opinion; a thing held to be true

Everyone has beliefs. Some are factual, some are opinions, some are lies. Paraphrasing Richard Dawkins, everyone is entitled to personal opinions, but what they are not entitled to are personal facts. I believe in truth. Things that are true are facts, things that are not facts are fiction. You can hold fact or fiction as a tenet, but you cannot necessarily hold your tenets as facts. You may promote facts as truth, but you may not promote opinion as truth without evidence to support it as such.

These are my tenets. I believe them to be truth insomuch as I have the mental capacity to understand the principles behind the concepts. I admit that I am neither a biologist nor physicist, so my judgments in these areas are based on trust of those who are.

1. There is (likely) no god. The probability of a god creating our universe seems to me to be orders of magnitude smaller than the method of genesis outlined by physicists and biologists.
2. Most organized religions of the day do more harm than good. There are many social benefits that religion has to offer, but they are dwarfed in comparison to the psychological damage that they inflict (especially upon the vulnerable; the young, the old, the sick, the 'sinners', etc.)
3. Humans are great creatures. Except when we embrace things that hurt others, like deceit, greed, corruption, hate, violence, murder, war, etc.
4. The purpose of our life here is to be happy and enrich the lives of others. This includes enriching the lives of our children, because if some of don't have children, our great species would die off.