Is Atheism depressing?

[Reaper]

I think most Atheists are just fed up with religious bull crap. I've known quite a few of them and they all seem to carry a certain bitterness. When I first got out of the church I told myself I was an Atheist, because I wanted absolutely nothing to do with the harmful ideology I'd been raised on. It was a knee-jerk response that gradually faded as I became introduced to other, less-restrictive perspectives of the larger forces that exist beyond physical reality. I think looking to science in order to prove one's lack of belief in higher powers is pretty ironic, considering that scientific processes are more and more coming to prove that those powers exist.