I must say, whether the universe is more interesting with or without God, isn't a consideration for me. It reminds me of the Chinese curse: "may you live in interesting times". For me, what rings true with Christianity is its depiction of good and evil. I cannot prove it (see my previous post). But in my gut I feel that morality is incredibly important to us as individiuals, and society as a whole. In my opinion, morality is far more important than science or arts to a culture. A culture with a healthy morality will always be worth celebrating, but a culture with high culture and high science, but bad morality, will be a blight on history, as was Nazi Germany. What troubles me about atheism is that, although atheists in the West may personally choose to adopt healthy ethical belief systems themselves, they probably only choose those belief systems because of the existing cultural assumptions that they have inherited. Because atheism cannot in itself help people to find that moral foundation. Most atheists in Western cultures today have adopted the main Judeo-Christian ethical principles. But if we become an atheistic culture, there is no guarantee that our cultural assumptions of morality we will not gradually evolve into something that would appall us. Thankfully, the strength of atheism in Europe today is very much the exception, and, particularly after the collapse of communism, athiesm is much weaker in the rest of the world.