Ron:

I think you are misidentifying causes and correlations. Atheism is not the cause of human tragedies.

It does remove an arbitrary solution to the absurdist quandary of existentialism. But the absurdist quandary is not a big deal, and is simply solved by taking on responsibility as an individual for projecting one's preferred meanings on the world instead of snuffling around like a truffle-pig looking for one that someone else put there.

God is a verbal reflection.   

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