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Atheist Beliefs and Practices

There are no uniform atheist beliefs and practices because atheism is just the lack of belief in god or gods. People have been misled into thinking atheism is a religion or an organized group when it's not at all. This misinformation has been disseminated and perpetuated by religions because they only seem to be able to view the world from an "us vs. them" perspective, which makes it necessary for them to label and classify their "opponents". Thus, atheism is labeled some kind of rival religion with beliefs and practices when it really has none. There are no universal atheist beliefs and practices because atheism isn't a church or religion, it's just the lack of belief in god or gods. Look up the word in a dictionary sometime. No matter how many times we try to explain this to religious people, they just don't seem to get the concept that we're just people who don't believe in god. Atheists aren't a single unified group. We each follo...

The Atheist View of Death

Religious people can't believe the atheist view of death, which is that we just die, cease to exist. This is a concept that is beyond the scope of understanding of most religions because they've all devised some magical place where you go after death and they promise their followers that they'll go there if they just do everything they're told and give the religion some money. The only scientific evidence we have is that when we die our bodies cease to exist. Our brains and bodies shut down. We become an inert mass. This is one of the hardest concepts for human beings to grasp, the idea that we won't be alive one day. Atheists don't generally love the fact that they're going to die, it can be really scary, but that doesn't mean they need to make up some story about where they'll go when they die. Instead, atheists cherish the current life they have because it's the only one they'll ever have. They live life to its fullest and generally do...

What Beliefs Do Atheists Have

A lot of people wonder what beliefs atheists have. Well, they have a wide range of beliefs about all kinds of things. Atheists are just people like you who believe in all sorts of things, just not a god or gods. An atheist is a person who doesn't believe in a god or gods. That's it. There's nothing else about atheism that has anything to do with personality traits, political beliefs, values, or morals. Atheism is just the proposition that there is no god. There are all kinds of people who call themselves atheists who believe in all kinds of things, except for the existence of god.