I mean... if it makes you happy, I guess, go for it. But to insist that your fantasies must be everyone's fantasies... that's where you mess up. Not all of us want that. Being an atheist doesn't make me a communist, or a satanist, or a socialist, or anything else. And trying to construct a persona and force it on me so I can be integrated into your starry inner world, that's what I object to. Well, that and the ever-simmering-under-the-surface threats of Hell. That constant childhood taunt of "you're gonna get it!" ... that's irritating... as I suspect it's meant to be.
“That constant childhood taunt of “you’re gonna get it!” ... that’s irritating... as I suspect it’s meant to be”
From my “fantasy” point of view as you might put it...My response would be...”You are going wide of the mark and are going to miss IT!”
I’m surprised you find anything “irritating” at all, after all pride is also one of those wasted emotions you should be doing away with and discarding like so much...fig leaf!
As for assigning values such as “wonderful” or “silly” or “good” or “evil”..an atheist can find herself in an incoherent world that while it might make sense for her, others who share a theistic frame of reference and know the philosophical ground on which they stand can only shake their heads at the incoherence they are witnessing. The atheist can’t speak authoritatively on subjects regarding truth, goodness, because her concepts are based on situational temporal reality and not on over arching spiritual eternal authority. The atheist can try to deny spiritual authority but she has no countering moral compass other than the brute force of the Godless state found in communism, socialism, or fascism.