I reminded the Red Army officers that the true intellectuals of the past ages believed in God. Francis Bacon, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, and Wernher von Braun all believed in God! Atheism has no answers that satisfy.
Study the great philosophers and see if philosophy satisfied their heart. Many of the philosophers came to the end of their life and realized their belief system had failed them.
Materialism will never satisfy the deepest longings of your hearts. God made you for himself and even if you have material things you will still find your hearts and lives empty without God.
False religions are a dead end! We are made to worship only the true God.