"Atheism is an arid creed"

"As a matter of fact...it is materialist atheism that is not merely an arid creed but totally irrational. Materialist atheism says we are just a collection of chemicals, and it has no answer whatsoever to the question of how we should be capable of love, or heroism, or poetry if we are simply animated pieces of meat." -- British critic and former atheist, A.N. Wilson