Atheism at its most basic has nothing to do with ruling out gods. It's about not ruling them in.
But Yahweh? The idiot that made the Universe in six days, man out of dust and woman out of a meatbone, who couldn't even find them when they were hiding behind a tree in the middle of the only habitable spot in existence? Whose kryptonite is anything made from iron? Yeah, we can be pretty certain that that bastard is purely - and poorly - fictional.
But Yahweh? The idiot that made the Universe in six days, man out of dust and woman out of a meatbone, who couldn't even find them when they were hiding behind a tree in the middle of the only habitable spot in existence? Whose kryptonite is anything made from iron? Yeah, we can be pretty certain that that bastard is purely - and poorly - fictional.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'