It is a merit of modern existentialist thinkers, including
nontheists like Martin Heidegger and Jean - Paul Sartre, that they understand and insist upon this truth
about human nature.
«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions
about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic
nontheist to talk to.»