***Why atheism can’t replace religion ***
It has “nothing” to offer!
Why must something be offered? It is the failing weakness of the human being that make him/her believe. Is it not possible to live life for it’s own sake? Must we reach for some intangible hereafter that promises, (yes promises) a better “life” “place” “existence” in an afterlife? We knew nothing of the world or God before we were born. We are only here because of our ability to swim harder and faster than a million other sperm, so why are we so special? Even this can be argued as being the will of God as can anything and everything according to religion.
Blastphemy you say? A man made concept to marginalize those who might think differently from the masses.
For those to whom religion is a comfort, I say be comforted
and enjoy the peace of mind that religious comfort provides.
As for the atheists, they too live in peace and comfort believing in their non belief.
Practitioners of a religious belief system believe that someday they will rejoice in heaven and there is nothing wrong with that.
Agnostics believe in some force of nature but cannot define what that is, it may be God or some other omnipotent being and there is nothing wrong with that.
Atheists believe that when life over, it’s over, that’s all there is and there’s nothing wrong with that either.
So debate it if you wish, believe what you wish. If the believers are right, good for them. If the Atheists are right, it really won’t matter.