"Hello from Brooklyn! Lucy, you should go to www.meetup.com and search "atheist." You will find many groups there - some activist, some educational, some just social. We have a thriving atheist/secular/free thinking community here."

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. -Simone de Beauvoir"

"All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. -Simone de Beauvoir"

"LOVED the "diamond in the back yard" link you posted!!! What a great analogy!!"

"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. -Simone de Beauvoir"

"I am recently married to a man who is also atheist. We had a secular ceremony that we wrote and drew largely upon Objectivist philosophy. Our wedding was meaningful to us and to our families. It is often a question I hear both from and to atheists:…"

"I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. -Sam Harris"

"Sam Harris talks about this in this video. I love this explanation and find it helpful to counter the "comfort" argument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jdBGKKZQKI&NR=1"