Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism?

[Pat Mustard]

For this thread let us lump all denominations of atheism, agnosticism, and soft non deistic worldviews into one.

Feel free to state your  best argument or  compelling reasons.

From my talking with other atheists the most common road to deconversion is a read of the bible. Most christians don't read the book (remember for the first 1,300 years it was verboten for all laypeople to read it), only listen to the bits the priest/minister/reverend/pastor reads out on a Sunday.

The actual contents is like a bucket of ice water to the face.

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When I was a theist, there was no "argument for atheism" that was convincing.

By that, I mean, I was not convinced by any atheist arguments. I was convinced by my own sincere search to see if my theistic beliefs were actually rational, supported by evidence, and reasoned argument.

After a bit of research using history, philosophy, archeology, science, reading the Bible itself, that convinced me that my beliefs were not rationally justified. I was in a long term relationship with a geologist, and she used to LOL when someone claimed the Bible was archaeologically accurate.

But of course (and I am not surprised), the initial question from the OP is completely flawed, and the OP does not understand: the atheism position, skepticism, Occam's razor, burden of proof, the null hypothesis.


Atheism does not require any arguments in favor of it. All that is required is that the case for theism has not met it's burden of proof.

Remember, atheism is not a positive claim, it is a response to a claim.

I would be interested in hearing 4 or 5 of the archaeological refutations or inaccuracies that you are making reference to.  Thank you in advance for sharing.

The town mentioned in the Legion myth is thirty miles east of where it needs to be for that one to work. Jews were never mass enslaved in Egypt, in fact they never left Iudea (they were a sub tribe of the Canaanites, in fact the most reliable way to find the earliest recorded passages of the OT is to look at which ones still depict yhwh as part of the Canaanite pantheon, hence genesis 2 is oder than Genesis 1). A corollorary to that is the forty years in the desert, an arthritic granny sucking an oxygen tank will walk the Sinai in a couple of weeks. The fossil records refutes both creation myths, the observed shape of the earth refutes the shape in the bible (i.e. it's not flat). Nazareth wasn't a town or village between c250 BCE and 400 CE.

That's six off the top of my head.