I must point out that if atheists here were writing with the same venom as some of the muslims in this thread have, I bet we'd be banned from the forum. Am I allowed to declare that muslims are stupid, childish, and in denial? No, I didn't think so. Yet look at the last few pages from our new muslim posters.
We seem to be getting the same questions re atheism over and over, so I will give you the 1 minute primer:
1. Athiesm is nothing but a lack of belief in God(s). Thats it. There is no dogma or system of belief in atheism at all. You were born an atheist yourself, before your parents taught you about your current belief. You are still atheist in regard to all gods but one. How you view Zeus is how atheists view Jehovah and Allah.
2. Pascal's Wager: "It is Safer to believe in God than not, So you should believe in God." This always comes up in these threads. It is fundamentally flawed in a number of ways. First, it is a false dichotomy, you assume only one possible God when there are infiinte possible Gods. Two, you assume one can choose to believe. Can you choose to believe that you are a cow? No. Because you know you're not.Three, Many religous books speak more harshly about worship of false gods than worship of no god, so one could argue that picking no god is safer than chancing picking the wrong god.
3. The Watchmaker Argument: The watch is complex, it could not just come to be on its own. Surely it had a creator. Humans and the universe are even MORE complex, so they must even more so need a creator! But wait --- God is infinitely yet MORE complex... so who created God? What? God has always existed or came to be on his own? Why not the universe then?
4. Atheists are not "in denial" or "rebelling against God". We honestly don't belive the fellow exists.
5. You do not need a God to have a moral sense. That comes from empathy and self interest and social contract. In fact, what you claim is morality from religion is really not morality at all, but just bare obedience to he with the greatest power.
6. Atheists who come here and to other online religious forums are not all unsteady about their athiesm or searching for faith. Most often they are simply curious, especially on a forum of a religion not so well known to them but in the news (such as Islam to most westerners). Often on such forums atheism is attacked, and it should be no surpise that the atheists there speak up. That is human nature.
Hopefully that quick 1 minute primer will head a few questions in this thread about atheism off at the pass.