Atheism 11 - Why Atheism?
I had initially intended to stop creating new posts after "Closing Arguments" and just wait to see what questions might be posed by readers that we could explore together. However, since several weeks have gone by and no new questions have been posed, perhaps it's time to start posting on some of the questions I had anticipated might come in. I shall begin by examining the question "why atheism?" Why choose atheism over religion? Does atheism represent an improvement in human philosophy over theology? Is atheism the inevitable belief of the mentally superior, those with greater acumen in abstract reasoning than the "ignorant masses?" For years I believed that there were only three reasons why someone might choose to be an atheist: (1) something traumatic had occurred in their younger days for which they blamed God and the only way they could think of to get even was to no longer believe, (2) a belief in God implies a belief in sin and a belief in s...