(March 6, 2015 at 10:05 pm)KrystalVisions Wrote: Hey guys. I am just wondering if there are any atheists who wish they could believe in something more? Isn't the thought of being just a mechanical meat machine depressing?Someone hasn't been reading their Lucretius lately. If you want to catch a glimpse of life's poetry you'd better start reading better stuff! Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins is another one you might want to check out.
Being mechanical stuff in an environment we are born from and to it will return, conscious of colors, sounds, feelings, thoughts, love---it's pretty special whether you imagine an invisible wizard behind a curtain or not.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza