Is atheism a liberating and good experience?

[naimless]

So you just want to know if someone else was miserable after the wool was pulled away from their eyes?

Or are you looking for an excuse to rail at Dawkins?

I agree with Dawkins as a de-facto atheist, but his idea that he is liberating people and providing people a good experience by taking away their faith is ludicrous.

I thought it was fairly obvious trusting in a higher power gives you a higher self-esteem. The euphoria I have felt from spirituality is something I haven't been able to get close to through-out my 8 years of agnostic-atheism.

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As a side note, I'm simply talking about the spirituality of living. I'm a musician and a lyricist and on another forum they seem to understand better what I am referring to. I think it does have a lot to do with this.

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religion is a drug.

essentially, you're saying you just quit using heroin, and now you feel bad, but since you felt good using heroin, your thinking about using it again.

Yeah you are getting there. I wouldn't say I want to pick up organised religion again, but certainly some vague parts of Buddhist philosophy have stopped me from wanting to blow my head off in the past. I just need a fix of some description, normal life is incredibly boring to experience.

It sounds as if you were happy as a believer and that your loss of faith was not something you really wanted to have happen to you.

Well yeah... I mean some of the concepts that areas of Buddhist philosophy refer to are beautiful ways to think of the universe, at least metaphorically. But I always felt it had a grasp on physical ideas too; cause and effect. Indeed, I saw no reason for areas of Buddhist philosophy and science to co-exist in the past. The Dalai Lama has a great belief and control of his mind, without the need of drugs.