Though making friendship is hard when there is distance of thousand miles but matters of heart and sympathy don't care distances when all live on the same planet. Atheists,I think, love or atleast respect all human. I don't care distance of oceans or sea or any geographic limitations. When people are happy whether they live in N America or S America or in Africa, I,m happy and if they are sad whether they are in US, Aus,NZ,Arg, or in Afghanistan, I'm feel sadness. So HEART don't care distances if it has true feelings without any sort of greed etc.