Athiesm doesn't work

Intelligent people, including scientists and philosophers, have reasoned for the existence of God.  While it's easy to see their self-justification and rationalization (Aquinas, Chesterton, Sartre, Kant, Pascal), they really are basing their views on belief and faith.  The same with all followers of theistic religions.  Even if one can affirm that no God or afterlife or supernatural exists, there is the sense of emptiness and lacking in a life with no written purpose or directed goal from some superior all-knowing being.  Thus people feel that "it can't hurt" to believe in something anyway, in hopes that that belief will lead to a better afterlife (Pascal's wager).  Many people feel an intrinsic need to be looked after by something greater or have some absolute laws that are unquestionable, putting faith in this authority like a dog would to his owner.  Without a master, humans are lost, empty, and find no purpose.  So religion just "feels good" even if it becomes  proven as illogical.  Besides, what else can prayer, hymns, cathedrals, and complicated ceremonies with special titles and clothing dedicated to a higher glory or state of being be used for, when nothing is there?  Humans hate to worship humanity for its own sake.  Even believing that we create our own laws and morals implies that nothing is absolutely right, as long as we are just simple biological creatures on a life supporting rock for a limited period of time.  Humans have a hard time accepting their uncontrolled, unmonitored position, and put faith in something even if there is proof it doesn't exist, in order to justify that their spiritual bases will be covered "just in case it exists."  It's easy to say God doesn't exist.  It's harder for most people to believe it.     

When we debate this subject we are faced with two hands.

On one hand believing something because someone wrote a book that we should believe it. Also doing this will comfort us in the knowledge that if we try hard enough we will live eternally frolicking amongst the clouds. It also invites to a lot of gloating of the other side who will burn in hell and feeling good about oneself for not belonging to that side.

On the other hand we believe what we see and experience and by logical proof take to be the truth. This side is faced with a big problem, a gap if you will, the great question of why one should bother living. Because its a proven fact that if you take away a person's brain he is dead. Shut your eyes and you cant see, cover your ears and you cant hear etc. etc.. Well, imagine someone getting blown to smitherines by a grenade, how is he going to experience, much less appreciate any type of heaven without his senses? The same goes for hell btw :P. So now we understand the problem, once we die, we cease to exist, nothing we have ever experienced can compare to that. Therefore death is neither sad nor joyful, yet death IS inevitable. So what can we do, we're stranded on a trickling hourglass which is our life, whereafter nothing really matters. Scientific discovery and historic acknowledgement, you say? Just as man dies, so Earth and the human race dies with it eventually meeting the same fate, i.e. pointless struggle. Out of death experience, you say? Try having one when youre brain is blown to pieces. Vampires, you say...? (-_-).

So what is there left? Just enjoy life as it is? Live for the moment? Do drugs, drive fast cars, bungee jump? I suppose thats one option. Theres also the option of believing something like a religion to comfort oneself. They all sound like good options, but in my humble opinion I just say live life as it is, no matter what youre doing you wont be enjoying yourself all the time and you wont ever be ever comfortable. So in whatever you ever choose to do, remember to experience every moment of it fully and treasure it. That is my version of atheism.