Contemporary Atheism is Optimistic?

          Stumbled over this in the Huffington Post a few days ago. There's some points in I had never thought of, pertaining to how I can be more Christ-like to the atheist and to the addict on the street.

          "Contemporary atheism is optimistic. Given its wall-to-wall phalanx of writers hell-bent on mocking everything that smells of religion, it may seem that this label is ill-applied. Yet under its bluster and iconoclasm atheism is full of good cheer and high spirits. Anyone who knows an actual atheist knows this."          

          You can read the rest here.