About atheism

[abaris]

Ideals are appealing. If atheism offers "nothing" and on the other hand you have "something" in the realm of religion even if its as ridiculous as magic, its offten more appieling then "nothing", "we don't know".

Atheism doesn't offer anything else than rationalism. I didn't arrive at atheism because it appealed to me, but because I no longer believed in lights of what I knew of the world. Also, since this debate is going in a pretty stupid direction, atheism doesn't define me - and, going out on a limb here - doesn't define most of us. It's only the absence of belief. I still have my life, my family and my interests. Atheism doesn't count among my interests to be perfectly clear.