The dichotomy between cold rationality and warm religion is Anglo-Saxon. Americans seem to carry this notion to extremes with their ideology about gender, where men are viewed as one thing, women another. It is possible to be warm, to have hope in all sorts of things, including nonrational things and to be atheistic. Rationality as embraced by new atheism is a fetish that merely inherits the religious paradigm of "truth at any cost" -- as Nietzsche pointed out. You have to be pretty religious -- an extreme form of Christian -- to take things to this degree. There's no need to fall on either side of the dichotomy and a more extreme form of atheism does not. Once you stop worshiping the notion of truth for its own sake, you can loosen up and just enjoy the granular experience of life. Or why not invent a goblin or an elf to help you out, rather than a God?
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