Believing in Deities is a Form of Psychosis

[mordant]

Atheism has no ideology and nothing to say about anything except that somebody lacks theistic beliefs, so why on earth would somebody settle on atheism without anything else in their life? Why not employ philosophical practices into your life and develop your own religion of ritual, morals and community.

Atheism itself is a narrow belief position on a single topic, however, it arises out of being a person who does not afford belief to the unsubstantiated, a form of empiricism or rationalism, which is how one arrives at a decent epistemological standard or system and chooses it over failed epistemologies. Therefore one does not arrive at a position of atheism for any sort of informed reason or as a matter of choice, without having some philosophical underpinnings.* It is these underpinnings that theists mistake for an "atheist worldview" when atheism isn't the view, it is the result of the view. What theists are better off railing against is not atheists, but empiricists and rationalists. Because even those empiricists who have not yet become atheists, are heading in that direction, inexorably and inherently. Theism is based on conjecture and irrationality, and so its true enemies are empiricism and rationalism. The problem that some fundamentalists have, of course, is that they can't admit they are making irrational conjectures or unsubstantiated assertions. It cuts them to the quick to admit that, so, they prefer to go off on a tangent and demonize atheists as the embodiment, not of rationalism or empiricism, but of rebellion, hatred, deceit, licentiousness, etc. It is simply an extension of how they misdiagnose the human condition as "evil".

* Of course there are a few atheists who are atheists for no better reason than some theists are theists -- because the idea appeals to them, or they want to fit in with others of like mind, or whatever. But very few people indeed openly take up a generally despised minority belief position like atheism, absent some real soul-searching.