Ethics

 I am an atheist.  I do not believe or follow religious superstitions or dogmas.  However, I do occasionally find useful rhetoric, tools, ethics and rituals within religions, which I freely adopt, as is my right.

I have always felt a central ethical kernel to have expressed by Jesus in Matthew 7:1-5.

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

This notion was not at all original to Jesus, it was also Torah Judaism at the time, and many other cultures.  But Jesus (allegedly) gave it a uniquely memorable expression as handed down in western literature.