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[[File:Apostle-John.jpg|right|thumbnail|210px|Stain glass depiction of the [[John the Apostle|Apostle John]]  

[[File:Apostle-John.jpg|right|thumbnail|210px|Stain glass depiction of the [[John the Apostle|Apostle John]]  

 

Ritualistic atheists find beauty in certain religious traditions, symbols or rituals.<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/researchers-ritual-atheists-and-agnostics-could-be-sitting-next-to-you-in-church-99373/ Researchers: 'Ritual' Atheists and Agnostics Could Be Sitting Next to You in Church]</ref> See also: [[American atheists and church attendance]]]]

Ritualistic atheists find beauty in certain religious traditions, symbols or rituals.<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/researchers-ritual-atheists-and-agnostics-could-be-sitting-next-to-you-in-church-99373/ Researchers: 'Ritual' Atheists and Agnostics Could Be Sitting Next to You in Church]</ref> See also: [[American atheists and church attendance]]]]

See: [[Atheist worldview, nature and futility]] and [[Atheism and wonder]]

See: [[Atheist worldview, nature and futility]] and [[Atheism and wonder]]

[[File:Russell in 1938.jpg|left|thumbnail|200px|[[Bertrand Russell]] ]]

[[File:Russell in 1938.jpg|left|thumbnail|200px|[[Bertrand Russell]] ]]

Although [[Bertrand Russell]] was an [[agnosticism|agnostic]], he had favorable views towards [[atheism]].<ref> Russell, Bertrand (1947) "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?"[http://www.luminary.us/russell/atheist_agnostic.html] Most online sources say "by which one prove," probably a mistake.</ref>  Bertrand Russell wrote in 1903 about [[entropy]] and the universe:

Although [[Bertrand Russell]] was an [[agnosticism|agnostic]], he had favorable views towards [[atheism]].<ref>Russell, Bertrand (1947) "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?"[http://www.luminary.us/russell/atheist_agnostic.html] Most online sources say "by which one prove," probably a mistake.</ref>  Bertrand Russell wrote in 1903 about [[entropy]] and the universe:

{{cquote|That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of [[atom]]s; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the [[solar system]], and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins- all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.

{{cquote|That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of [[atom]]s; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the [[solar system]], and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins- all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.