"Please tell us about how comforting atheism is for you."

Atheism is not an absence of anything other than the inane belief in the supernatural; it is a celebration of the infinite wonders of what is rather than the somewhat warped fantasies of what, most evidently, isn't. Atheism is about life and reality; it rejects hocus-pocus and spirtuality as being, at best, Folklore and treats them accordingly. The comforts of Atheism, therefore, are not effected by absence of God, Sprituality, Funny hats, Hoo-Hah, Tarot, Astrology, Ley lines, Elightenment, Nirvana, Karma, Holy Toast, Heaven, Hell, Angels, Fairies, Jungian Archeytypes, Rosary Beads, Prayer Wheels, Reincarnation, and other such arcticles of faith, rather they are enriched by the presence of a far greater and more meaningful material reality. In my case the list is endless - Frank Zappa, M R James, The Marx Brothers, sex, food, Folk Song, Fiddles, Organology, Sun Ra, Don Cherry, Bitches Brew, Jordi Savall, Rene Zosso, Phil Rickman, Liverpool, Manchester, the AA, the Trafford Centre, Studio Ghibli, Beat Takeshi, Kraftwerk, New Order, Tim Westwood, Subway, McDonalds, Davie Stewart, Edgar Allen Poe, Friedrich Nietzsche, IKEA, ASDA, Morrisons, Wetherspoons, penguins, Larry David, Godzilla, Willie Scott, canals, Thelonius Monk, ducks, Becks, vintage pornography, Peter Bellamy, pigs, jelly fish, The Fall, Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Top Cat, Vic Reeves, Rolf Harris, clouds, hedgerows, Green Men, Misericords, Magma, Will Hay, Jim Eldon, the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculture, the Soft Machine, Art Tatum, Rahsaan Rold Kirk and, of course, Duke Ellington.   

Real Life is all the comfort I need, and in my experience the Cosmic Debris of Religion just gets in the way of living so I reject it. The Human Dimension is all there is, so believe whatever you like, just don't go telling me it's a) real b) true or c) worth killing or dying for. The universe is so much bigger than religion; I tell you ASDA is bigger than religion, and Life really is too short for doing anything else but living it. As for Death - I was Dead once upon a tie; before my birth I didn't exist. Non-existense didn't bother me then so I doubt very much it'll bother me again.