"Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it."

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When life is so harsh that a man loses all hope in himself, then he raises his eyes to a shining rock, worshipping it, just to find hope again, rather than looking to his own acts for hope and salvation. Yes, atheism IS a redemptive belief. It is theism that denies man's own redemptive nature.

— Isaac Asimov