(December 13, 2011 at 2:52 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: A sense of awe with the natural universe and the potential of the human mind and human civilization. Thing is that many atheists share this sense of wonder. Carl Sagan certainly had no lack of it. Dawkins has said things about the wonder of reality that always made me say "amen". Even the cromudgeon Christopher Hitchens has expressed a few such sentiments.
I feel a sense of awe very often. You only have to look at a starry sky on a clear night, understand the distances involved etc. Many, many other natural things fill me with awe. Does that make me think there is a deity? Absolutely not. There's no evidence for one and no need for one either given the vast age of the universe.
In fact, the sense of awe is perhaps greater when you think to yourself "fuck, this did it all by itself!"
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
