My Atheism: Searching for Truth?

Preface and Context: I was recently challenged by a blogging/email buddy to explain my atheism and I responded, rather reflexively, with curt answers.  The questions were good ones, if not just a bit vehemently posed.  This post is one of a short series that attempts to answer those inqueries in a more respectful way.  Two disclaimers though: a) The questions were posed as a set and therefore have a certain coherency.  At the risk of losing the thread, I have decided to separate the individual parts and offer a post on each.  I have preserved the original order of the questions in the order of the posts if you choose to reconstruct the original query, b) I have, in some cases, edited the question to tone down the sarcasm.  These qestions were posed in the heat of "battle", and in order to reduce the chance of my responding in kind and missing the important points, I have tried to responsibly restate the question in the spirit in which it was originally intended.  Any mis-treatment in this respect is my own error and I apologize in advance, although I have made an effort to maintain my civility. 

Question 4) If your 'truth' is indeed truth, or better, if your searching is in itself truth, what do you do about the millions who can't read or write; who have no access to the 'wealth of knowledge' of the world and are, therefore, relegated to their own uninformed 'box' of ignorance?

Response 4). I'm skeptical by nature and training.  "Truth", and those professing to know it, give me a case of nerves with their hubris.  I have never claimed to know the "Truth".  I'm not even sure what it is I CAN know, let alone make such a bold statement.  Searching is neither "Truth" nor "Knowledge" but an activity.  Searching requires an open mind, a willingness to consider many different perspectives, but does not require books, or money, or worldliness.  Just curiosity and an ever-present tendency to ask "why?,  or maybe, "How"?

The deeper thread in your question is your conclusion that in order to reap a "Just Reward" at the end of life, one must know the "Truth".  For you, life appears to be a constant competition for "rightness".  In your world, the "ignorant" are somehow at risk of some horrible fate (some "Justice" that is).  In my world, my atheistic world, we are all equal.  Nobody gets a reward for being human, nobody gets a punishment.  There is no Universal Arbiter.

"Imagine there's no heaven
it's easy if you try
No hell below us
above us only sky"
(Lennon).