Atheism, A Grim Position?

[Jenny A]

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Hello, I'm new to the forum. Full disclosure: I'm currently a non-traditional theist. However, I have considered atheism a few times but it seems to be such a grim position. Let me explain.

As I understand atheism, these would be a few of its tenets:

There is no ultimate meaning. Therefore, all lives and events are ultimately meaningless.

There is no ultimate basis for value. Therefore any moral position is ultimately arbitrary and logically, equally defensible. This means that things like genocide, pedophilia, torture, etc. are equally defensible to any other moral position.

There is no ultimate intentionality associated with/in reality. Therefore, all events, actions, thoughts and behaviors are determined by chance and necessity. Thus, an individual's thoughts and actions are determined solely by prior causal events and chance.

At least for me, if I take these atheist positions to their logical conclusion this all seems psychologically pretty grim.

I'd be interested in comments why this is not necessarily the case.

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The only thing that makes atheists, atheist is a lack of belief in a god or gods. If you find that psychologically grim, I can't help you. I suppose gravity is pretty grim if you think about it too hard.

I have a question for you though: what is it about the existence of a god, that would make life more meaningful?