I respectfully disagree. Seems to me that religion is an egocentric view inherently. But if it comforts someone who has lost loved one or someone who needs fellowship, I wouldn’t begrudge them. I don’t lay claim to all the answers—on the contrary, the religious do.
Yes, I believe a lot of good comes from religion. And I believe a lot of good comes from atheism. You can have it both ways.
“For an atheist to reject religion means only that he has failed to understand it, precisely. A confession of atheism is simply an honest confession of ignorance of any realities that transcend the human ego, nothing more, nothing less.”
“And I believe a lot of good comes from atheism.”
I do not believe in a God of any kind, though do not claim to be an atheist, just because I think the term is absurd. I don’t believe in a phoenix either, but I don’t call myself an aphoenixist. I think it is silly to label myself by what I don’t believe in.
So I also don’t believe “good comes from atheism,” because it is actually nothing. I know atheists who are truly virtuous, independent individuals who are productive, creative, honest, desire nothing more than they can earn by their own efforts, are reasonable and would willingly die in the fight for the freedom of all men—and they mind their own business, something many Christians have not learned to do, and which their Bible plainly teaches.
Hank