Quick take: How on earth did Atonement get on this list? Only an atheist could have concocted the daft scenario, in which “atoning for sin” entails inventing an alternate reality to ease a guilty conscience—the sinner as self-savior.
That isn’t atonement, that’s idolatry. And it surely has nothing to do with the spirit, only the deluded ego of a fallen human nature.
Think about it: If using one’s imagination is all that is necessary to redeem past errors, then why not reinvent a morality that would excuse the error as being of no consequence in the first place? Isn’t that part of the New Atheist project?
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