You're a different breed than some of the more militant atheists I've come across, who claim that religion has caused Most-o-The-World's-SufferingTM, or even the trolls who claim "Hitler was a Christian, he said he was."
As an ex-atheist, I salute you.
Cheers!
I have reached the conclusion that believers' and unbelievers' minds are wired differently. Why this is so, I don't claim to understand.
Believers are so put together that they must answer the big "Why?". They find that their lives are unsatisfied without a knowledge of the ultimate Cause for... well, for everything.
Unbelievers are wired differently. I can go for years on end without thinking about "why" I hold some things to be right and others wrong, or about "why" I am here in the universe. And when I do think about those things, they are more a matter of idle speculation than anything else.
Our minds are wired differently, not better or worse. Neither the believer nor the unbeliever is "wrong" or "stupid" or needs a "crutch". That's why I never attack God or belief in him.
The only time I take offense here on FR is when someone posts to the effect that as an atheist, I cannot be a conservative, or that my atheism is harmful to America. With those ideas up I will not put....