I was listening to a talk and one comment struck me: the two greatest things that the Church can offer are beauty and her saints. True, but what can atheism offer? No liturgy, no cathedral architecture, no quiet parish country churches, no saints, and no beauty.

What then is its attraction? A kind of intellectual curiosity. A full stop. I doubt; therefore I am. I am free. Not bound by any tie to some traditional form of reasoning. True, but where are the saints? Where is the beauty?