"Grab a cup of coffee...

...and read this two-part essay by Edward Feser on the academic slant to the left (here and here). Here's an interesting quote that is far more honest than the posturing I typically get from my atheist readers. It's from atheist philosopher philosopher Thomas Nagel on his 'fear of religion' in Part II:

'I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain everything about human life, including everything about the human mind.'

To which my response is: would that most atheists were as honest as he. Most of them waste everybody's time posturing as people who have impartially weighed the evidence and come to the conclusion (more in sorrow than in anger, mind you) that there is no God. They're just objective rationalists analyzing the truth. While religious believers are, of course, needy people who are living a wish fulfillment fantasy that integrated adult personalities (such as atheists) have 'outgrown'.

Right. In my experience, I have never met an atheist who was not investing a helluva lot of will in demanding that God not exist. It's a massive act of faith and will. At least Nagel admits it. Puts him way ahead"