“My parents neglected to poke Christianity through the soft spot in my skull before it hardened and was too late to affect me, therefore, I grew up an atheist and never had to go through a painful de-conversion.”

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In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies (Figures 1-9). The most theistic prosperous democracy, the U.S., is exceptional, but not in the manner Franklin predicted. The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developed democracies, sometimes spectacularly so, and almost always scores poorly. The view of the U.S. as a “shining city on the hill” to the rest of the world is falsified when it comes to basic measures of societal health.

Psychotics, epileptics, and adherents of a huge variety of religions, including Bob’s, believe that they “see miracles everyday”. De-cons have figured out that this does not prove that these events are really supernatural or that the supernatural agents who are purported to cause them actually exist. Bob suffers from the common religious fallacy that _his_ perception is infallible and everyone else is wrong.

My life is no worse, and probably better, than it was when I was a devout Christian. There is no evidence that Christians have better lives than non-believers, and quite a lot of evidence that they are actually worse off. There is no evidence at all that someone can have “the best life anyone could ever ask for” just by wanting it, whether they are Christian, Muslim, Kalathumpian or non-theist. Of course, it helps if you have good health and lots of money. It is more important to be able to choose one’s parents carefully than one’s god. Most people have no real choice about either.

Bob needs a better education.

Bob is outahere. Me too now.

Best to all.

You make up miracles everyday. Life is wonderful and does not need any metaphysical nonsense to make it so.

You are partly correct…people can make their lives better but they do not need some delusional thinking like you do in order to achieve it.

Agnostics and Atheists embrace “this” world and not some imaginary better afterlife. We understand that his life is the best that we will ever get, it makes us appreciate every small and large part of it instead denouncing it as lacking as the faithful often do.