The most important reason anyone is an atheist

[Brian37]

If you can accept that a hurricane is not caused by Posiden, and can accept that Thor does not make lightening, then what we do not know about "before" would not need a god either, finite or infinite. You simply don't want to face that your pet god is merely your own childish wishful thinking.

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We're a result of natural existence (the universe) but what is natural existence the result of? All things that begin to exist are caused by something that exists, it can't be what began to exist either circular logic gets you nowhere.

Are you saying you can only plug the whole of ignorance about how the big bang came about with the mega-complex, non-created "god-plug"?
Is it difficult to come up with any other explanation?
I know it's difficult to observe any pre-big-bang events... maybe even impossible. Even theorizing about such an event is complex and leads to wild speculation, but it can't be that difficult to contemplate the possibility that something happened without any thought or intent being poured into it?
Is it?

Please, really? Is it that hard to accept that things can and do happen without thought behind them? Hurricanes don't have brains, so why would an atom or an entire universe need a programer or god?

I get just as pissed at atheists who buy si fi version of a "god" calling "all this" a "simulation". It still woo crap, and still has the same baggage as standard god myths in infinite regress.