No Relief

 If you are suffering, or if you see the world as a mess, would anything change because you say, "There is no God," or "I don't believe in God."  The only thing that would change is you would be relieved of a resentment against God for not fixing you or your world as you see it.  So I have not found much use in atheism when it comes to my imperfect body or world around me.  Non-belief is not a solution to much of anything.  Many people who say there is no God are really angry at the God they don't believe in.  "I'll punish you God.  I won't believe in you!"  Rather than worry about the depth or power of my faith or lack thereof, I try to sit with me and get quiet and still.  Quiet means not only outside noise, but inside noise of my porous imagination or mind.  Often, either I get to feel better or less miserable, or I come up with a solution of action for the outside world that is more potent than mere impotent disbelief.