Do You Ever Miss God?

[Jehanne]

Yes, absolutely; I miss religious faith and the emotional and mental comforts very, very much, especially, the comfort of an afterlife.

But, it's not real, at least by the standards that we judge everything else in life.  Look at this way (which, I got from another source online -- just google it):  You have gotten arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison (or death) for a crime that you did commit.  Now, you may be (understandably) angry and blame the police for the way they treated you, the jury who convicted you, the trial judge who sentenced you, the prison guards who guard you, etc., etc.  But, are you going to invent some fantasy that you are not going to go to prison, death row, etc., just because you find the fact of prison and/or being executed to be unpleasant?  Only mentally ill people do that, or sane persons who are trying to fake a mental illness.  Nearly everyone else faces reality for what it is.  The "alternative" (and, there isn't one for sane people) is to invent an alternate reality for which there is absolutely no evidence.

Religion and/or religious faith are just as silly.

Wow, that's deep to equate the life of atheism with a prison sentence or death row. For me it's more like giving up an extremely pretty piece of glass for a diamond. True, we can no longer take comfort in what we know is not real, but even though atheism gives us a big dose of reality, that reality is no more empty than what we put in it. Take comfort in knowing that you are free.

I do take comfort in that; religion, for me, was always the square peg in a round hole, and I never could come to believe in it, which is why I abandoned it.  Still, the prospect of an afterlife is absolutely delightful, but it's the modern equivalent of chasing a rainbow.