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.
@CobaltVelvet What's interesting is that if you get familiar with philosophy/theology, Jewish and Christian descriptions of God basically devolve to the entirety of creation; they acknowledge that using positive descriptors (e.g., God is graceful, benevolent, green, whatever) make no sense; one can only describe God by what it is not (God is not cruel, red, human, gendered, etc.)
Basically, personified depictions of God are inconsistent with a lot of Judaism and Christianity itself.
