A couple more thoughts here. People thirst for meaning. Everyone does. From the time you are born you begin to search for meaning in your life. At first it is found in a very small radius...mostly relating to your mother, father, and your family surrounding. From those you derive a sense of meaning that is absolutely precious and vital to your sense of yourself.

Later it starts spreading out to a wider radius. You being to find meaning in neighbours, friends, people you meet at school, and so on. It's mostly a case of relationship on one level or another.

You begin to wonder what your life is about? What is its purpose? You have to find a purpose of some kind in order to have some sense of direction. Some people just settle for satisfying immediate appetites...as an animal would. But for many people, that's not enough. They look further. They look into greater ethical questions and more extended forms of relationship...with other people, with nature, with animals, with society, with the planet.

It is primarily out of people's burning need to find meaning and purpose in their lives...and an explanation OF their lives...that all the great religions and rational philosophies have arisen, as have our various ideas about basic ethics. That search is what has ennobled people, raised them above mere brute survival, and created great art and culture and magnificent creativity of every kind.

Why not focus on that instead? Focus on the positives instead of bitching about the fact that some people believe in angels or in a "god" or in reincarnation, and you don't? ;-) No one said you had to! (At least I sure didn't.)