Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism

[zebo-the-fat]

Grand Nudger: from what ive gathered about the term "atheism", i believe it only means a disbelief in idols, what i think youve called "narrative devices".  i believe this agrees with Christianity; it speaks against idolatry too, the worship of anything we can see or detect.  by "narrative device", i think you mean that it is only a reference to a much larger something "behind the scene."  as a Christian, i believe this is true, up to and including Christ himself.  so i think that, basically, God is the good that these devices have been referencing.

As far as I am concerned atheism is simply a disbelief in gods, nothing more.