Still an Atheist, Thank God

I got e-mail the other day that sent me back to a conundrum I've been fretting about for decades. It might be summed up by something the great twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote to his student Norman Malcolm:... what is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc. & if it