4 random arguements for atheism.

[Ryft]

Oh pickle! ANOTHER apologist trying to tell atheists what they do or do not believe.

I'm sorry, I did not realize we were in the presence of the Infallible Pontificate of Atheism, the Most Holy Padraic.

All sarcasm aside, my view of atheism is not the product of convenient whim. It is a view formed from years spent as an atheist, reading scores of books and essays from atheistic philosophers and popularizers of atheism, interacting with atheists of varied stripes, evaluating critical material for and against atheism, engaging in formal and informal debate with atheists, etc. ad nauseam. You are entitled to disagree with my view, but in no way is my view uninformed or inaccurate.

The notion that atheism is strictly the absence of a particular belief about God is only superficially true. On the surface an atheist is someone who is without God-belief. But as one gets below the surface of the issue, one finds that all atheists universally have a particular belief about God—(i) some atheists, as you acknowledge, that God does not exist, (ii) but all atheists without exception affirm the belief that "God is not required." This is the very nature of atheism; i.e., when it comes to science, reason, knowledge, ethics, etc., all atheists universally believe and affirm that God is not required. For anything. On the surface, atheism is the absence of belief. But only at the surface, for beyond superficial treatments of atheism lies a very important and substantive belief.