"What drives an atheist to live" is one of the common questions, but I don't understand why? Why is it such a mystery? Or why is it so obvious what drives a theist but not an atheist? And what is that "obvious" thing that drives theist to live?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
