Introduction: We embrace atheism (for many reasons)
We have our traditions (did you know that?)
We leave our churches (if we formerly believed)
We make our own meaning (what a remarkable idea!)
We invest meaning (another curious idea!)
We nominate ourselves (as the heroes of our own stories)
We get blue sometimes (who doesn't?)
We deal with meaninglessness (yes, by making meaning)
We choose our meanings (or do they choose us?)
We make idiosyncratic meaning choices (as is our right and obligation)
We maintain meaning (daily and over the long haul)
We make our ethics (as active moral philosophers)
We stand firm (even while consternated)
Conclusion: We find life amazing (exactly as it is).
