Why Atheism?

Keep in mind that atheism is not a belief in anything, rather it is an understanding that a god or gods simply does not, or do not, exist. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.

The existence of life on this planet does not presuppose an intelligent design. If one thinks that life proves intelligent design, think about dinosaurs. What was the design behind gigantic monsters roaming the earth for millions of years? Just because a human or creature breathes does not prove the existence of some omnipotent watchful father figure in some faraway realm. Outside of blind faith and one book or the other, there is not one iota of proof.

The miracles that people have claimed to have seen and accredit to “god” are just that – claims. There is not one claim that cannot have many possible causes.

There is no empirical evidence that god(s) exist, there never has been. There’s nothing observable using any sense that indicates a god is here, or has ever been here. There is nothing in the human realm or in nature that links the living on this planet with any shape or form of supernatural omnipotence.

There is no holy grace. Just look around. There are zealots (I like to call them the American Taliban) today who think that everyone should go around, even to their places of worship, armed with hand guns just because of a misinterpreted, two hundred-plus-year-old clause in our constitution. They think that they would be more safe if there were more guns. These same people will proclaim they do what they do because they are under heavenly influence. How insane is that?

There is also no mystical ghost-like soul-thing that rises from our bodies when we die in it’s attempt to find some gray haired father figure in some golden city somewhere in the sky. This whole concept is pure fantasy.

What there is proof of, what one can actually touch, is the only evidence that death leaves behind –  finality and putrefaction.

Christians claim that their benevolent god invented the world and “heaven”, a loving benevolent god that cared so much for this world that he sent down his son to save us from ourselves – our sins. “Sin”, according to the christians, muslims, and others is some sort of violation of this god’s law which is interpreted by men who have to re-sell them on the laws every Sunday or prayer time. Many times this “sin” can be directed at this god or directed at other humans telepathically through mean thoughts. As far as preachers go, I don’t know about you but I believe that if someone has to chant over and over that what they are talking about is the right thing, then I feel like I’m being worked. Anyway, according to the christians, sin is an affront against the god as interpreted by men who have a vested interest in church attendance and therefore violations are punishable by the god.

Punished? This is where the benevolent thing gets a bit fuzzy.

Logic dictates that if this god is not benevolent, as is very apparent, then the god is malevolent. In order to maintain church attendance, the christians tell you about how this loving god is going to cast you into some fire (or something equally scary) if you don’t eat the flesh and drink the blood of this “son” figure every so often, symbolically of course - blood rituals so scary that pagans don’t even do them. The big hypocrisy is the fact that christians and muslims think their god is loving and caring.  All you have to do to debunk this is to look around at all the wars, disease, poverty, and politicians who deliberately deny health care for the poor. Anyone can plainly see that there is no omnipotent figure in charge of anything.

If this god cared, then it would do something, you’d think. But since it does nothing, it is either incapable of helping, or unwilling. If the god is incapable, then it is not omnipotent. If it is unwilling, then the christian’s claim of benevolence is unfounded.

Christians say that we are to do this god’s work as an answer to the question, “where was god when the tsunami drowned all those good christain people”, as an example. Saying that somehow this is his plan is a cop out. Saying that we, as a society, are somehow responsible for other’s suffering is an attempt to cover chaos with purpose, which is futile. It is all political spin and is an attempt to defend the indefensible. When pressed they blame bad things that happen on the people that it happened to, like saying it was the residents fault for living in the path of a hurricane.

The whole point of this is that I have come to believe, after years of being christian, then agnostic, then pagan,, a god(s) does simply not exist. There is no proof outside of blind faith. Show me some proof! If you point to the creation of humans, I’m going to say biological evolution which has plenty of empirical evidence to back it up. If you point to a tree as an example of the wonders of some god’s doing, I’m going to say biology. There is no proof of a god. There is plenty of evidence that there is no god.