@RichardKuklinskisIcyGlare @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @freepatriot @zeke @Mister_Sunshine well for the connection I'd say a lion doesn't think about god at all yet nobody would say his connection to the universe is severed, so it's not really an atheism problem. It's just the modern Jew world.
"Where it came from" can be a "foundational myth" for a people, this is who we are and where we came from type stuff, so more like the philosophical outlook on life. And that can be very positive regardless of religion.
If it is meant literally however, I'd say that atheists, or even mainstream science in general for that matter, has the best explanation currently available. There were millions of little things where religious people concluded it must have been God that made it so. Dog breeds, the races, the continents, the firmament, the seasons, the sun, the species of animal, water, cells, molecules, atoms, anything you can think of.
The impulse to appreciate natures beauty and calling it divine is noble enough, but they all turned out wrong. *One* atheist outlook is just thinking statistically. Why would this one specific thing we haven't understood yet be God? All the other things weren't and nothing is different about this one. The origin of species wasn't God, the origin of the planet wasn't God, the origin of the Sun wasn't God, why would the origin of the universe be?
If the same standard some smug Christians apply to atheism, i.e. "oh you don't know this one thing 100%? Therefore, Christianity is true" was applied to their own mythos, it would collapse immediately, since you can't go from "we currently have limited understanding about origin of the universe" doesn't mean "therefore the world was created in 7 days by God and then he kicked Man out of Paradise"
Pushing drugs, gambling, and prostitution are "victimless crimes?"
I really don't think so.
The drug addict is slowly destroying himself, and there's always the chance that he will do it quickly with an overdose. I've known a few people that are gone now because of that. Good hearted, sweet people that I loved.
Gambling. Well, it's not deadly in and of itself, but many people with the genetic proclivity for chronic gambling have gone broke and ruined their lives, and when they're family men that means that they also ruined the lives of their Wives and children. Hardly victimless if you think about it. And the casinos don't give a shit. They're all run by gangsters.
Prostitution. I really don't believe that any young woman gets involved in that shit because they want to... even the slutty chicks. I don't think any young girl ever dreamed of becoming a hooker when she grew up, the way that a lot of young boys dream of being firemen or police officers. Mostly, they're poverty stricken young women who don't have much in the way of options. I've known a few prostitutes (I'm a White boy who grew up poor, so I've lived in some sketchy places). Those girls all had a dead look in their eyes, like their souls were gone. That's why I've never "been with" a prostitute even though I've been propositioned many times. I wasn't going to exploit their vulnerability and actively take part in their ruin. Most of them end up miserable, and a lot die young either from drugs or suicide, and some are murdered by their Johns or pimps.
Yeah... victimless? I don't think so.