It is in fact atheists that don't really think very much. They just draw their thoughtless conclusions without even noticing how banal they are. Where does everything come from? I don't know, from nothing. It doesn't matter.
You said you could lead a good life without religion. How would you know? Without an objective measure goodness is up to the individual. What you think is good can change from time to time and person to person.
What is really so thoughtless that it is a joke is evolution. To think that all the complexities of life came from random variations is ludicrous. No amount of time can turn some random molecules into a functioning cell with dna, nucleus, and membrane.
It is religious people who are thoughtful. At least they try to answer the difficult questions in life instead of ignoring them. As a famous theologian once explained how faith leads to understanding:
“Again, before we have the power to conceive and perceive God, as he can be conceived and perceived – for this is permitted to the clean of heart, since, ‘Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God’ (Matt. V.8) – unless He be loved by faith, it will not be possible for the heart to be cleansed so that it may be apt and meet to see Him. For where are those three things, for the building up of which in the mind the whole apparatus of the divine Scriptures has been erected, namely faith, hope and charity (I Cor. Xiii, 13), except in a mind believing what it does not yet see, and hoping and loving what it believes? He therefore who is not known, but yet is believed, can be loved…Faith, therefore, avails to the knowledge and to the love of God, not as though of one wholly unknown or loved at all, but to the end and that He may be known more clearly and loved more steadfastly. (On the Trinity 8.4.9)
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