As you should be able to tell by now, Mr. Olefemi, we are atheists for a number of reasons. Most of us are atheists principally because of lack of evidence for any sort of god, let alone a god with all the attributes assigned to him in a specific religion (e.g. one who sends his son/himself down to Earth to change water into wine, raise the dead, walk on water, die himself, come back from the dead and float up into the sky). Our disbelief is reinforced by the moral reprehensibility of religious texts, which demonstrates that they were written by primitive, bigoted individuals in a pre-scientific era. We have confidence in science and philosophy as means to discovering truth about our universe. This is not 'faith' as religions advocate, though, which is essentially belief in the face of lack of evidence, or even evidence to the contrary. History shows that science and reason in general improve our lives, whereas religion is by and large a regressive force when it comes to morality and metaphysics. That's why I, at least, am an atheist.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
