[mjp]

However, modern secular (godless) thinking minimizes this significance.

and purpose:

Unfortunately for the Humanist, his theology of atheism often strips him of all sense of purpose. As Ernest Nagel explains, atheism "can offer no hope of personal immortality, no threats of divine chastisement, no promise of eternal recompense for injustices suffered, no blueprints to sure salvation...A tragic view of life is thus an uneliminable ingredient on athiestic thought."

[GodGunsGuts]

Or atheology for short :o)

Nice find, btw.