Atheism Information

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...

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...

A lot of religious people are freaked out about atheists and science. The perplexing thing is that religious people use science every day to make all kinds of decisions: They use phones invented by science; live in homes made safer by science; drive cars made possible by science; watch weather reports based on science; go to doctors trained in science; take medicines developed by science; but when it comes to their god, science goes out the window. Because atheists don't believe in god, they're free to use their brains to explore the universe. Science has proven to be the single most reliable way for people to gain knowledge about the world around them. Atheists don't have to rely on supernatural beings to tell them about the world, they use their senses and available scientific knowledge. There have been millions of scientific studies published about huge numbers of topics, all of which are available to any person who wants to learn. As atheists, we sometimes ask ourse...

Religious people often ask about atheism core beliefs. The fact is that there are no atheist core beliefs because atheism isn't a belief system, it's just the lack of belief in a god or gods. If we said that we don't believe in space monsters, religious people wouldn't ask us what our belief system is, they would just understand we don't believe in space monsters. The same is true for gods, we don't believe there are any because we haven't been presented any scientifically reliable evidence to change our minds, just like space monsters. The personal beliefs of atheists vary widely. Our particular group of friends believes in all kinds of nice things including helping others, treating other people with kindness, behaving with empathy, taking care of the planet, helping those in need, loving our families and friends, and doing things that leave a better world for our children. None of this has anything to do with atheism, it's just that we're nice pe...