What hard intellectual work is there in Atheism that we should aspire to it?

Source(s): IMHO

Source(s): "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the improbable. A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill." - H.L. Mencken "Religion is a disease promoted by starvation, because hungry people hallucinate, and then pray for food. This is why so many religions encourage fasting: it weakens the mind." -Arthur C. Clarke "Perhaps we should thank the Taliban for finishing the task the Crusades began nine hundred years ago - proving beyond further dispute that Religion is incompatible with Civilization." -Arthur C. Clarke "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned." - Anonymous So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others. -- Bertrand Russell For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. - Dr. Albert Ellis, psychotherapist "Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred." - John Burroughs "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche All thinking men are atheists. - Ernest Hemmingway "Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile." - Kurt Vonnegut