What is/are the basis/es of your atheism?

Question

I haven't really met an atheist. I want to know from you, who are real atheists, what made you one?

Answer 1

I am an atheist because I don't believe in deities and the word atheist describes this state of disbelief. I don't believe in deities because no argument or evidence presented to me in support of their existence has been convincing.

1. Biology adequately describes life and emotions without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

2. Astronomy adequately describes the formation of stars/planets/universe/etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

3. Geology adequately describes the evolution of the Earth, land formations, etc without appealing to mystical invisible dieties

4. Psychology describes the human psyche better than appealing to mystical invisible dieties

5. Appealing to mystical invisible dieties is an appeal to ignorance

6. There's no physical evidence for the existence of mystical invisible dieties

7. A myriad of mystical invisible dieties have been posited by emphatically superstitious societies and have been proven to be products of overly active imaginations (today's religion is tomorrow's myth) and ignorance.

8. Believing in mystical invisible dieties seems to become quite absurd when those who posit the mystical invisible dieties begin explaining why and how they exist in the face of contradictory physical evidence.

9. As scientific knowledge increases, the role of the mystical invisible dieties oddly gets pushed further and further back.

10. Mystical invisible dieties are mystical invisible dieties (ie can never be found by empirical methods)

That should be enough to get you started.

Answer 2

studying human behavior is my major. and i believe that there is no pure atheist. usually, this is the result of the rewards that an "atheist" get from the people. they are rewarded for the feeling that people think of them as rationalist and intellectuals. and because of this, some individuals who are not really "atheist" in nature, conform to this state. they question faith. and yet, why do they question it? if ever they are true, will it make a difference?, will it make the people of this world love one another?, stop all the wars?, cease the sufferings and hatred? they claim themselves as intellectuals and rational people, and yet, they are not rational about what it would cause. people have different faith, and this faith guides them into living a noble and peaceful life.
let's leave faith as it is.
there are no atheist, and they know it. they are protecting their ego by being more rational. there will always be a niche of faith in their being.

don't worry, i haven't met one also, maybe it's because i don't believe them.. ahehehe..^_^

Answer 3

Not that I am, but people generally believe that it refers to lack of belief in God? What the terms of Atheism and God have in common, linguistically is termed Modals: can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would, ought. I have heard a lot of these words used on soapboxes. People forget such words are not objects.

Answer 4

There's no gap in my world for God to fill.