Having been an evangelical Christian once and now being an atheist, I feel the chief benefit to me of atheism is that it frees me from a lot of the unpleasent side affects of religion.
It's nice to think God loves you and you're going to heaven when you die, but it also requires that you feel guilty for things you are not responsible for (lust for example), that you interperate absolutely everything through the lens of religion instead of viewing events naturally, and that occasionally you feel an uniquely desperate feeling of abandonment when your life takes a turn you don't expect and you have no feeling that God is doing anything to help you through it or save you from it (which is a feeling the atheist does not experience, because they obviously realize bad things happen and don't expect cosmic help).
In my opinion, atheism is just less burdened with religious weight that simple drags on every day life. We as atheists are free to act, feel, and think as we please.
2007-05-25
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