As much as I want to say yes, I can't entirely. I was having a conversation with a friend the other day, and he told me that he agreed with what I was saying, but the "hopelessness of atheism" was too much for him. I wondered what would happen to him if he realized life was most likely the extent of his lifetime. There is something very cruel about telling a small child that Santa doesn't exist. And it parallels the belief that some people have in a god. Personally, like a child with Santa, I feel it is something that our species must outgrow. I know i'll get hit about that, but can you imagine the volume of people mourning the loss afterwards? I didn't become atheist overnight, it was a process, and I am better because it was a process.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
