How do you deal with life now that you are an atheist? (With a little of my life)

[Whateverist]

@Whaterverist – believers should “settle in a secular society”? Secularism, properly understood, means willfully ignoring doctrinal differences between various religious and philosophical approaches to life to find the lowest common denominator. It is a tool to identify commonalities for the peaceful interaction of various perspectives for the purpose of politically unifying a nation.

I meant this. Separation of individual religious/philosophical commitments from the operation of the state.

Hopefully, I am not reading too much into a single phrase, but I got the sense that you meant something more. Hopefully you did not mean that a secular society is one that requires its citizens to justify their ethical systems without reference to the Divine or avoid groundings their theories of human rights in any transcendent values. It seems a bit authoritarian to privilege a materialist worldview and expect others to submit to its presuppositions. That would be like me suggesting that materialists will be tolerated so long as they do not question Christian doctrines. Again, hopefully, I am taking an innocent phrase wrongly.

I don't recall the original phrase. The bolded part is for the self selecting community who show up on the internet to exchange ideas, justify them when challenged and challenge those of others when the spirit moves you.

@Those Who Kudo Rythym – Personally, I find it very closed-minded to think that the only two options that explain someone rejecting atheism are dishonesty or mental illness. Again this goes back to the pretense that atheists have a monopoly on logic and reason. I find it hard to believe that some of the AF members I respect would applaud this kind of intolerance.

But you do realize he turns some nice phrases and makes good points between the bombast, don't you?