The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.