Why can't atheists get any leverage ?

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25. I agree with you in somewhat less harsh terms

Everyone fears death, whether they admit it or not, at least a little bit. But one of the ways people get around that fear is the belief that something waits for them on the other side. Atheists say, no, nothing waits for you, you die, that's it.

I'm agnostic but the idea of nothingness isn't exactly a pleasant one for me either, even though I suspect that's the answer for most of us sooner, and at some point if we are technically advanced enough, the rest of us later (even if you lived for 1 million years it wouldn't approach the age of the universe and heat death means sooner or later everything in the entire universe dies).

So, I can understand why at a base level, someone would not exactly find atheism an appealing ideology and not much like those who practice it because it directly strikes at a fundamental, human conceit/fear.