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Sorry, but Chesterton was spot on target. If it isn't astrology, paganism, Fundamentalist Islam or something, then it is humanism, moral relativism and some other silly doctrine. Filling the natural human need for God with something else doesn't work, but all who need God try it.

Of course, you (and Chesterton) were only speaking for yourselves (not all of humanity).

Rubbish. Chesterton said that if people don't believe in God they believe in anything. He was not talking about me or himself. He was talking about everyone. Now either he was right or he was wrong, but he was making general claims.

Sorry, Chesterson doesn't know what he's talking about. I've been an atheist for 20 years and haven't played with any of that stuff. Once again, like in so many of these threads, you have people on one side trying to tell the people on the other side what they think. Well you don't have to wonder. Here's what I think: the only thing I believe in is me, I know what I'm capable of and I know how to make my life work. I don't believe in God, Allah or Baphomet. I also don't believe in the fortune telling powers of the stars, the lines in your hand or the intestines of slaughtered animals. I do not believe in nothing and I do not believe in just anything. I believe in me.