The Truth is also within.

Ive compared it to a child that learns there is no Santa Claus, it does make you feel good to know the truth - but it makes you sad to know that there is no Santa Claus

True to a point, but if you are religious you have to spend your whole life rationalizing your given beliefs to yourself and others. This can create a lot of cognitive dissonance and become mentally exhausting. Many people who become agnostic/atheists do so simply because their religious defense mechanisms get worn down by reason.

very true

I'm agnostic, not atheist, but I agree with most of these. I feel loved by something greater than me, though..Source energy, Universal Consciousness, etc.

I also don't feel a victim of the cosmos, since our consciousness is what drives matter..we literally create our own realities, our own universe.

“Consciousness is fundamental and matter is derived from consciousness." – Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

Yeah, but being atheist/agnostic, you don't have all those goddamn rules and rituals to bother with; you can simply be a good person and not fuck with anybody over their beliefs, or lack thereof.