I fear I'm not intelligent or courageous enough to be an atheist -- especially with the hospitalised comforts of religion and miracles beckoning from the side of the path.

The concept of deity strikes me as barren, because it blots out the universe.

Yes, there's Bach and the others. Whomever they are officially praising, to get the lucrative residencies, their nourishment of humans is entirely through their astonishing brainpower.