I'm definitely not an atheist tho.
I find/believe:
- theistic religions and their people are gullible and dangerously irrational (Christians, Jews, Muslims, ...);
- religions openly more philosophical are objectively great (Taoism, Buddhism, ...)
- atheism is mostly being willingly ignorant and closed-minded and feeling superior for it
- scepticism and accepting to not know things is the actually reasonable answer
Simple illustration: the origin of the universe.
The irrationally religious will directly talk about their God.
The irrationally atheist will talk about the Big Bang until you ask "what about before that" and they'll either explode or murder you.
The sceptic or agnostic will accept there was the Big Bang, and that there's possibly something before or more meta that we don't know about (yet).
sceptic or agnostic: I prefer sceptic, as it leaves a place for the (yet). But whatever, both are okay.
My only actual belief here is that the possibility of a God of any kind relative to us is not excluded and we could come up with an unlimited number of theories about it that work with current physics.
I mean just try to understand modern physics for a year or two.
If after that you're still convinced there can't be anything more, I'll be very sorry for you.
@CobaltVelvet you presuppose the possibility of the supernatural realm in most of this thread. Take most any physics theory and prove it and it is now 'natural' - aka actually existing in the realm of physics. It *can't* be super-natural. It's all just taking things from the "not yet understood" column and moving it to the "understood" column. None of this precludes atheism, which is by definition a lack of belief in deity.
@dixongexpat well the difference really is between "lack of belief in" and "belief in the inexistence of", which is close to modern atheism
@CobaltVelvet there is such a thing as 'modern atheism'? What does that even mean? It seems as if you are taking the words and actions of a subset of atheists and applying it to the definition of the word itself. Atheists are about as scattered in their beliefs as anyone else, save the one unifying lack of belief. 99% of the planet doesn't believe in Santa Claus...