Atheists

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How can atheists fill in the void left from the realization that there are no absolutes/great power(s) out there which have some kind of ultimate control over the universe? Some just fill in the blank with things like their jobs or sports, but others are not so easily satisfied. Will there eventually be an atheistic equivalent of religion, such as "worshiping" the government, corporations, or one of our own creations? Just a taught any opinions would be great

Quite easily, I don't require the crutch of a higher power to stumble through life with. We already have a type of heaven when you look at the wonders that surround us, a babys laugh, a womans smile, the cosmos above, the inferno below. The miracles of life, geology all around us. Problem with humans is we always want to see if something better exists somewhere else, be it over the horizon on or another plain of existence, we already are in a place that if heaven did exist it may be quite bland by comparison and its eternal patrons may wish to trade that eternity for what we have, however fleetingly we have it.