It believes that truth for truth's sake is the highest ideal, and that virtue is its own reward. It believes that love of humanity is a higher ideal than a love of God. We cannot help God, but we can help mankind. Hands that help are better far than lips that pray. Banish me from Eden when you will, but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Atheism is a self-reliant philosophy.
It makes one intellectually free. He is thrilled to enthusiasm by his mental emancipation and he faces the universe without fear of ghosts or gods. It teaches man that unless he devotes his energies and applies himself whole- heartedly to the task he wishes to achieve, the accomplishment will not be made. To the philosophy of Atheism belongs the credit of robbing Death of its horror and its terror. It brought about the abolition of Hell.