Atheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
An individual chooses and makes himself.
Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.
There is no salvation anywhere. The idea of salvation implies the idea of an absolute.