Atheists Longing for God

Many of us presume that atheists and agnostics don’t think or care one bit for God. But this is not the case. Heinrich Böll, a German writer and devout Catholic, once joked, “I don’t like these atheists; they are always talking about God.” The daughter of Bertrand Russell, Katherine Tait, the renowned atheist once said her father’s “

whole life was a search for God. . . . Somewhere at the back of my father’s mind, at the bottom of his heart, in the depths of his soul, there was an empty space that had once been…