calvary quote

Life at it's best resembles a calvary charge...Bergson

Mother teresa vs capitalism

"...Furthermore, the heroism of her efforts should not blind us to the fact that she has done relatively little physical or economic good for the people she is trying to help. The few people who receive the loving attention of her or her nuns certainly do feel better from having received it, and will probably never forget having been in her presence. But a businessman who built a factory in her neighborhood, provided on-the-job training and medical insurance for the people who worked there, and made piles of money for himself in the process, would do far more to actually alleviate human suffering. However, advocates of the morality of altruism would dismiss that man's achievements because "He only did it to make a few bucks for himself" and advocates of the morality of pity (including Mother Teresa herself) would promptly turn their attention elsewhere, because the people there would no longer be pitiful...."

pity morality

Pity is a trait that punishes the actor. The pitier sees unfairness and as a sentient being, the pitier tries to alleviate the suffering, a noble act, but why must one suffer to help another? "...It requires every happy human being to soil his soul with the sadness of the most miserable, and thus multiplies human misery far more than any physical disaster ever could..." and "... Helping those people that you feel sorry for, and feeling sorry as often as you can...".
More disturbingly it causes the pitier to pass over the goodness in this world=> "...According to the morality of pity, a truly moral person does not fill his consciousness with the thoughts of Shakespeare and the emotions of Beethoven; his soul reverberates only with the wailing of cripples and the moans of the starving. He does not formulate dreams and plans of his own; he merely responds, like a Pavlovian dog, to the ringing of a bell from a sickbed..."
It would seem to me if one were to try to alleviate suffering, one should decide what to do, a formidable task since how does one really know if one's charity is not only not helping but exacerbating the suffering, and set aside time to do the task. Or to be more "division of labour" like, work extra at one's trade and donate the extra proceeds to a charity in w/c the deeds can be fulfilled more efficiently.

Ther are no atheists

A ferrari, w/c I know very little, tells me 2 things. A car of excellence ie fast, precise, aesthetic but it also says wealth. Clothes, architecture etc. also are a means of human communicating without speaking. Dogs can also relay ideas but moreso with scents like pissing on a fire hydrant. The gist of this is that for every idea there corresponds other idea(s). The problem though is that all corresponding ideas can be misinterpreted.
What does this have to do with atheism? The answer lies in the quote, "...The notion that God is merely the outward projection of man's inward nature..." -Ludwig Feuerbach and in the notion that morality-> God=ideal morality (vs the more monotheistic religions idea that God->morality).
Let me clarify, let me speculate on a being that is ideal in my morality (all powerful,all good, something that really humiliates me in every sense x's infinite when I am compared to it). Where did this being come from? It came from my idea. An idea that I strive to be like but cannot reach. This ideal is God. And everyone has an ideal of morality, even atheists.
Where mankind has gone astray is that an idea of an idea of a perfect being has to be defined. Throughout history, mankind has defined ideas through his corresponding surroundings. A fork in the road=> a decision, see clearly vs foggy nebulous=understand vs don't understand, troubled waters-bad times, deep=far reaching etc. etc. It is difficult to define the word "the" because we cannot correspond it to anything we see in our surroundings. Similarly a four dimension box is hard to "see" in our minds. God is far easier to understand as a tangible/seeable being than as an idea of the perfect being. Try explaining to a young child that god is an idea of an ideal.
Lastly, when Nietzsche noted that God was dead, he feared that since mankind derived his morality from God ie morality was reduced to God, that terrible things were on the way. God's death would shake the foundation of man's morality. God-> morality vs morality-> god.