(April 19, 2016 at 8:18 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: So let's cut to the chase. Is it accurate to say people gather to support one another of Atheism to avoid submitting to any person claiming to represent God?
Atheists don't gather to support each other out fear of believers. We gather because it gets tiring feeling like the only sane person in the room.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell