I had a strong emotional response to Sophie Prell’s article, “Despite opposing views, religious deserve respect,” in the Thursday Daily. I find her views so sad. After my first 22 years or so of life, I had stopped believing in God with a capitol G. Years went by. I believed in some god, but couldn’t define it. When I looked up in the sky, I saw the same hopelessness. I felt it would be presumptuous of me to try to find my purpose in life when god probably already had one for me. Then I let go. I realized you can’t find something that wasn’t there. Now, as Sophie does, when I look in the sky I see myself: an amazing work of nature. My life has purpose and meaning and I have never been happier. Don’t look back and admire the Christians who see an answer. Look forward and realize you are the answer.

Matthew Tillman

Graduate student of physics and astronomy

Vice president, Atheist and Agnostic Society