What are atheists grateful to? Are you grateful to the Big Bang or evolution, or something that started the Big Bang?

For me being grateful for is more important than being grateful to.

If I focus on being grateful to, then as a non-atheist (non-nihilist?) I end up being grateful to just one thing for everything. God, Being, Life, whatever one might want to call it.

Sure. That is good.

But being grateful for makes me aware that everything I enjoy has much more beneath it. I’m eating a bagel now, but I have this leisure because a lot of people have made it happen. At deep levels. The ER attending not letting me die a few years ago— so I can eat a bagel now. That people are doing a lot of dirty work to just let society exist so that eating a bagel is a possibility.

I find focusing on grateful to can make people indifferent to all the interdependence in life. God put that bagel on my plate, nobody else. So why show any gratitude beyond that? But I find focusing on grateful for naturally brings one to grateful to.