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Without context, let me just share a really lovely paragraph that someotherguy wrote today.

So rather than (or in addition to) trying to provide scientific proof
for our position, we might try address the religious mind set more
directly. That means appealing to things like love of truth,
humility before mystery, a desire for a meaningful life and a sense
of awe and wonder. Carl Sagan was a master at that, but I can't
think of anyone else who even really tries.

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He might like this bit by Brent Rasmussen in a recent Daily Kos piece "Interview With A Godless Conservative (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/8/8218/49243)":

Much later I realized that being an atheist is the best way to approach this life. It's like un-wrapping the cotton swaddling from your skull and seeing the bright, beautiful world as it truly is. Our planet, each other, our lives, our universe, they are all so incredibly and wonderfully exciting - all on their own! Why gild the lilly, you know? Isn't it enough to see the mind-blowingly beautiful fog of stars on a clear night - and knowing that our tiny little envelope of air and dirt is embedded in this small part of one of the spiral arms of our galaxy - without attributing it to Jojo The Great God Of The Congo's B.O. or something? I mean, why diminish it like that? I'd rather understand it the way it really is - and not the way that I wish for it to be.