Rather than discarding a crutch or a security blanket, moving from religion to atheism is more like stepping out of the darkness of superstition, with all its imaginary shadow monsters and bumps in the night, into the light of reality. There's a little scene in The Blair Witch Project in which the characters go back at night to a spot they'd found in the daytime, in order to film anything out of the ordinary. After panning around for some time, one of the characters remarks that it's all pretty much the same as it was earlier, only darker.
Put another way, if you throw out religion of any flavour and all its doctrines, you'll find nothing in reality that wasn't already there anyway that you might not have accepted or even seen before.
Put another way, if you throw out religion of any flavour and all its doctrines, you'll find nothing in reality that wasn't already there anyway that you might not have accepted or even seen before.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
