Weird feeling around religion and my beliefs do other atheist feel this way when comforting?

I don't need to be afraid of a fairy tale in order to be moral.. I follow a moral code because it is what I believe is right.. not because i'm afraid of an invisible sky monster. Oh.. btw: your bible openly encourages rape - and your "ten commandments" has 4 commandments that basically say "kiss my pompous butt" yet says nothing against slavery, child abuse, or rape... This is where you get your "morals"? Zechariah 14:2 "For I God will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses looted and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

," Judges 21:10-24 Numbers 31:7-18 "They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. ... Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves." Deuteronomy 20:10-14 "As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.

If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.

But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you." Deuteronomy 22:28-29 "If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father.

Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her." Deuteronomy 22:23-24.

No, honestly I don't feel a superior power controlling my lives - I feel that I am, for the most part, in control of my decisions and I take the consequences when I screw up. There is no pray-to-someone-and-make-it-better. Now, that said, I am an Agnostic, not an Atheist.

I haven't seen any credible proof that God exists, but I haven't seen any that God doesn't exist either. I am OK with not knowing. I don't know if the planet is going to be destroyed in the next 10 minutes by an asteroid - yet I can still run my life.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.