Let's answer CARM's Questions for Atheists

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1. How would you define atheism?: A lack of belief in god claims.
2. Do you act according to what you believe (there is no God) in or what you don't believe in (lack belief in God)?: The latter. I have no particular reason to believe anything about a god, for or against.
3. Do you think it is inconsistent for someone who "lacks belief" in God to work against God's existence by attempting to show that God doesn't exist?: No. Personally, I just enjoy dismantling poor argumentation, and it so happens that theists provide a target rich environment when they try to prove that their god exists. All I'd need to find is a single argument for god's existence that isn't poor, and I wouldn't "work against" that one: it's the quality of the claim I object to, not its content.
4. How sure are you that your atheism properly represents reality?: Without any evidence that a god exists in our reality, what would move me to consider that atheism doesn't map to reality?
5. How sure are you that your atheism is correct?: Lack of evidence for a god. That is sufficient.
6. How would you define what truth is?: That which best corresponds with objective reality.
7. Why do you believe your atheism is a justifiable position to hold?: Isn't this just a rehash of question five?
8. Are you a materialist or a physicalist or what?: What. Definitely what.
9. Do you affirm or deny that atheism is a worldview? Why or why not?: Deny. It is a position on a single claim, a component of a worldview. Beyond that, an atheist can believe in pretty much anything.
10. Not all atheists are antagonistic to Christianity but for those of you who are, why the antagonism?: Because the followers of that religion are being harmful to the world that I live in, and the justifications they give for their actions are woeful.
11. If you were at one time a believer in the Christian God, what caused you to deny his existence?: Nope.
12. Do you believe the world would be better off without religion?: Yep.
13. Do you believe the world would be better off without Christianity?: Yep.
14. Do you believe that faith in a God or gods is a mental disorder?: No, just a poor intellectual choice.
15. Must God be known through the scientific method?: Depends on your god.
16. If you answered yes to the previous question, then how do you avoid a category mistake by requiring material evidence for an immaterial God?: Easy. It's not my problem if you're desperate to turn your god into an unjustifiable, unfalsifiable position. If you want to do that, then I won't bother committing a category error, I'll just dismiss the belief out of hand until you can demonstrate the existence of the immaterial, and that god belongs in that set. If you want to play with the grown ups, that's the sort of evidence you need to provide.
17. Do we have any purpose as human beings?: Survival, I guess. I mean, the ones that don't follow that purpose are probably dead.
18. If we do have purpose, can you as an atheist please explain how that purpose is determined?: Dead people can't have purpose. Aside from rotting.
19. Where does morality come from?: The needs and desires of thinking agents within the group structure they evolved into, measured against objective reality and subject to testing.
20. Are there moral absolutes?: No, but there's an objective reality that serves as the yardstick by which subjective moral claims can be measured for accuracy and worth.
21. If there are moral absolutes, could you list a few of them?: No.
22. Do you believe there is such a thing as evil? If so, what is it?: There are evil actions, defined as harmful actions performed with no benefit other than to the actor himself.
23. If you believe that the God of the Old Testament is morally bad, by what standard do you judge that he is bad?: Yes, and by the morality detailed in question 19.
24. What would it take for you to believe in God?: Objectively verifiable evidence that points specifically to a god.
25. What would constitute sufficient evidence for God’s existence?: Think about what it would take to demonstrate the existence of your pet dog. That, but for god. It's actually an extremely low barrier of entry.
26. Must this evidence be rationally based, archaeological, testable in a lab, etc., or what?: What, again.
27. Do you think that a society that is run by Christians or atheists would be safer? Why?: Atheists. No exhortation to kill anybody in any of the atheist's moral systems.
28. Do you believe in free will? (free will being the ability to make choices without coercion). : Yeah, I guess.
29. If you believe in free will, do you see any problem with defending the idea that the physical brain, which is limited and subject to the neuro-chemical laws of the brain, can still produce free will choices?: No problem at all. Material components in specific arrangements can often do things the individual components cannot do on their own.
30. If you affirm evolution and that the universe will continue to expand forever, then do you think it is probable that given enough time, brains would evolve to the point of exceeding mere physical limitations and become free of the physical and temporal and thereby become "deity" and not be restricted by space and time? If not, why not? : I don't care.
31. If you answered the previous question in the affirmative, then aren't you saying that it is probable that some sort of God exists?: Not your god, you sneaky shit.