There are people like you describe.Yet on the flip side,there are also those who,while denying God,seem to be the most in need of”Him”.I know a guy like that at work.He openly curses God and is extremely blasphemous.Yet inside he is more like a hurt little child who seeks something beyond the betrayals of other humans he has encountered.
I shiver when I think of a world in which the masses in particular become atheists.You would lose all social control and all aspects of traditional morality.People would loot,rape,pillage and burn without the necessary restraints religious morality brings to the table.This morality is essential or we will devolve into a Peggy Lee If Thats All There Is hedonism.
I do agree that certain educated,ethically astute individuals could lead a moral life without religion or the belief in a God concept.But NEVER the masses.
Therein lies the reason why religions were invented, or rather more appropriately, why societies with a belief in consequences succeeded, while the others withered away. I’d like to believe that if people strip religion down to the extent that they realise the things that religion offers that seems to support society, then they may at last be able to incorporate the same without needing to believe in any irrational, supernatural entity. That social glue needn’t necessarily be belief, or religion.
Yes. It has been a long, empty search. The want is great, but the hopes are nearly non-existent.