While the focus here at Through the Cooking Glass is on physical nourishment, we cannot neglect mental and spiritual nourishment. The following paragraph from Prophets of the New Atheism hits the nail on the head.
Certainly, you can have an ethical individual atheist, an instinctively caring, generous person who happens to disbelieve in God. But an atheist society could not survive. It would first live on the fumes of ancient moral traditions. In the end, racked by despair at life’s apparent meaninglessness, its members would return to more nourishing faiths.
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