(October 21, 2013 at 6:23 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: How does this relate to you assuming that people who don't believe in God fill the "void" (which I don't think even exists) with substance abuse?
He's so addicted to Jesus that he can't understand how anyone can live their life without a metaphysical crutch, so he has to naturally assume that atheists use a physical one. Thankfully, not all of us suffer from the same mental defects that he(I'm sick of writing he/she, so you're a dude from now on, SoC) does.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell