Atheism explained in 1 post.
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Atheism is the lack of belief in a God or gods. We'll focus on monotheism seeing as how it is more prevalent. We do not know for certain that God does not exist, we are simply unconvinced that he does. We view God as an unfalsifiable hypothesis much like elves or goblins. Since God is not immediately apparent to any of our senses, evidence is needed for us to give the idea of him any credence at all. The primary assertion of atheists is not that there is no God, but rather that there is no good evidence for God. And until evidence of a God is presented, we will be atheists.
The beauty of nature is not evidence of God, unless the ugly aspects of nature such as disease, famine, rape, and death are evidence against God. Atheists view nature as lacking conscious planning and thus see both it's beauty and it's ugliness as incidental. The Bible, the Quran, someones personal sense of God; these things are not proof of God, but rather articles of faith. Faith is the opposite of evidence. In fact, the very definition of faith, is belief without evidence. Which is what most atheists are really against.
But even these non-evidence based beliefs wouldn't be a problem if they didn't influence societal opinions and attitudes and negatively affect public policy with political discourse. With this noted, please know that not all atheists have qualms with other peoples religiosity, but many do take issue with it for the very reasons I detailed in this post.
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