Atheism is for wimps.

Maybe not necessarily all kinds of atheism. However, most today hardly suffer as Nietzsche did, or Schopenhauer. And their kind of atheism is not comparable to today’s worldviews most atheists subscribe to, no matter if one accepts their philosophy or not. Nietzsche, once the youngest professor in Germany, ended up in the gutter. Both also understood that morality becomes subjective once God is removed; Schopenhauer, in his own ethics, even wrote (paraphrased) that to preach morality is easy; to posit morality is hard.

I was an atheist myself, then I had a conversion experience at age thirty. If someone convinced me that the New Testament is a lie and atheism is true—which, as I see it, is impossible because this is akin to wanting to convince someone that he does not love his wife, to use an analogy that may be lacking, though is closer to the truth than claiming that the believer is somehow wanting X to be true without “evidence”—; if an atheist wanted to convince me that I believe in a lie and succeeded, I would end my life immediately just as I actually did aged twenty-three as an atheist (I obviously survived).

Atheists need to accept that they are the ones who have to come up with good reasons for how, for example, morality is possible without an objective law giver. Or what the point of existence is: why would I suffer to live a life I don’t want and actually despise—which is still the case for me: I have to endure it, which is actually pretty horrible—when death ends in extinction anyway?

It would not make much sense. Suicide is a better and quicker way to deal with it, even though I understand most people may see this as a drastic method to go about solving the existential problem of meaninglessness that is the result of unbelief. As a Christian I have good reason not to commit suicide, even if it does feel forced at times. Certainly, one now has to do the will of another and not live as one wishes.

The media is dominated by atheists anyway. “Thinkers” like Jordan B. Peterson, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Yuval Harari ([mirror]; see also Ship of Fools) et al. This point was also made by Bruce Charlton in his book Addicted to Distraction:

[…] the Western Mass Media is built on anti-Christian foundations.

As usual, Don Colacho did the groundwork already:

The believer knows how to doubt; the unbeliever does not know how to believe.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

New evidence is not more perfect than old evidence.
It is merely new evidence.

If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism.
The rest is rhetoric.

If God were the conclusion of a syllogism, I would not feel compelled to adore Him.
But God is not merely the substance of what I hope for, but the substance of what I live.

Democratic atheism does not dispute the existence of God, but rather His identity.