Answers needed

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Hi everyone!

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but I'd really appreciate some answers to some/all of the following questions. I'm interested in how an average atheist thinks about these topics. It would be great if you could give some explanation for your answers. I'm coming from a protestant worldview.

1. Does God exist?
2. Where did the universe come from?
3. Does my life have a purpose?
4. Why do people suffer?
5. Is there life after death?
6. Can I distinguish right from wrong?
7. Can people know truth?

Sorry for being point form. 

Hello, welcome

1. Depends on what "God" is. I've never been given a coherent definition. If we're talking about the characters in popular holy books, then there is no credible evidence that they do exist.

2. No idea.

3. Objectively, no. Purpose is an abstract judgement than is made by an intelligence. So to me, my life has a purpose.

4. Because it's generally unavoidable. The world is a harsh place.

5. No credible evidence that there is such a thing.

6. I can make good decisions to maximise wellbeing and minimise harm, based on what I consider to be valuable. Morality is subjective so I don't claim my judgements to be any sort of absolute.

7. We can't ever know that what we think is true is certainly and objectively true, no. We can only ever make pragmatic assumptions and probability judgements.