New atheist here, gotta say, not loving it

[Odoital77]

Those words relate to how I would behave as an atheist, not necessarily how I view individual atheists themselves.

So all that's stopping you from pressing the self destruct button is your faith? Sounds to me like you have serious issues, I mean, you are admitting that without your imaginary friend you couldn't lead a honest decent life.
Millions of people worldwide live Godless lives with no consequence to either themselves or the societies in which they live, think about the other side of the coin.

No, as I said earlier.  "On atheism there is no grounds for having hope.  You simply have the life you appear to have now, and when it is over...you are over.  Nothing that you say, do, or feel has any ultimate meaning or significance.  If I somehow found myself an atheist, I can imagine myself feeling much the same way.  Knowing myself, I would likely end up killing myself through destructive addictive behavior, probably by way of the abuse of alcohol and use of prostitutes.  Thankfully, I'm free from that kind of existence as a Christian.  I would invite you to reconsider the truth of theism and Christianity in particular."

That has nothing to do with an imaginary friend.  It has to do with the fact that there is no ultimate basis for meaning on atheism.  And yes, merely because I would likely succumb to destructive behaviors if I didn't know the truth about reality doesn't mean that everyone else would to that, though I would point out that plenty of people poison their bodies and destroy their lives in just the ways I described, as well as many others.  But yeah, there are people who don't realize, are able to ignore or otherwise compartmentalize the consequences of their views and are not drastically affected by their consequences of their views as I would be.  Those people can certainly live multi-decade lives that look very much like those of any other average Joe.

Moderator Notice
Edited to fix quote tags