[split]Atheism is based of ignorance.

[Tonus]

But our relative ignorance is a damn good reason to deny anything beyond the physical world or some kind of greater meaning/purpose to life?

Correct me if I am wrong, but you are positing a "world" that we cannot detect through any of our senses or even through instruments or evidence of physical effects. It seems to me that god has always existed just outside of our ability to perceive him. Long ago, he lived just above the planet. As we extended our gaze, he moved further and further away. Finally, he shunted his entire abode into an entirely different dimension from which he only peeks when he's sure no one is looking. And he made sure that the world seems to work as if he was never necessary, and works as if he is not around to intervene.

There are many such beings and realities that I am ignorant of in regards to their actual existence. It's not as if men have not continued to create gods and monsters over the course of our existence. I cannot disprove that there is a cartoon universe where Mickey Mouse is god and Donald Duck the devil. Or that great C'thulhu isn't resting somewhere beneath the waves, ready for the wakening call that will come when his devoted followers finally get that blasted portal open. Maybe I'm ignorant to the very real danger that exists on the other side of that veil. And maybe there's nothing there.