Reply #115: This is kind of late in this thread to be responding

[TallahasseeGrannie]

but I did want to mention that I don't think of atheism as a cold, dark place. I am sure we appreciate they beauty and mystery of life as equal travelers on the planet. I find atheists in general to be thinkers, and thinking will warm up that cold, dark place immensely.

As a matter of fact, the only time I ever really differ with an atheist is when I encounter one who believes he/she KNOWS the answer to the mystery, no debate allowed. (I don't like that characteristic in anyone, actually.) Because the bottom line..the final sentence...in any discussion on higher powers, the universe, the afterlife...it has to end with. Nobody knows. Which is why it is so much fun to discuss. We are all equally mystified. We are all equally clueless. We look around us, we look inside us, we take our childhoods and upbringing and we come to conclusions that work for us.

Amen.