It's not strange that we have people who were brought up believing in God opting to turn away from theism to embrace atheism. Everyone is allowed to have their own worldview in life but when someone embraces atheism and vehemently denies the existence of God, there is much need to worry because saying "There is no God" is an illogical position. Why?
Has the atheist investigated every claim for the existence of God and refuted it soundly?
Has the atheist investigated every scientific evidence for the existence of God and disproved it?
Has the atheist travelled all over the world, and into outer space, transcended every galaxy to prove that there is no God?
Has the atheist considered all the scientific evidence showing that the universe had a one-time beginning and that every thing that began to exist must have a beginner?

The answer to all these, if there is an atheist out there, is a definite "NO".
So how then can someone boldly declare that "There is no God" when obviously he doesn't have any evidence to refute the existence of God. It is illogical to imagine that this fine-tuned orderly universe came about due to the random assemblage of molecules by accident, and worse still, to believe that the universe came out of nothing. If there is no God, then why do we have something (the universe) instead of nothing?
Either, everything created itself or something created everything.
You do not need a PhD in molecular biology to know which is the most logical conclusion of the two premises because nothing produces nothing. Nothing is exactly that - No thing! We all know that a plant must grow out of a seed, a tuber, a cutting or whatever it is. We all know that a human must come out of a sperm and an ovum fused together, so why should we believe that the universe came out of nothing?

In my interaction with atheists I have realized that they claim not to have faith yet they fearlessly believe that the universe came out of nothing, with no evidence to back them up. There is no evidence to show how life can come out of non-life (read evolution) and such a position must be held entirely on the basis of faith. Remember, faith is believing something to be true even if you don't have all the information about it. so atheists cannot disprove the existence of God - they only try to do it by faith. They have faith that atheism is true, thus defeating logic and the objectivity of science.
People who deny the existence of God do so because they want to live a free life without any rules and do as they like because without God, no one will hold you accountable.

Why should an atheist have an inherent desire to do good to others? And why is this desire shared by the whole human race? Where did he get this desire if there is no moral law? Every law must have a lawgiver and if there is a moral law, there must be a lawgiver.

Denying God's existence is like walking a tight rope and the stakes are very high. And in light of historical philosophical and scientific evidence for the existence of God, one can't help but ask himself: Who needs more faith, the atheist or the theist?

Well, the bible also says to murder everybody that works on the Sabbath day..So I guess we should hack everyone that works on Saturday/Sunday to death if we are to follow what the bible says. I don't believe in your bible. Here is what it says about working on the Sabbbath day.

The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)

What a loving God, always threating murder at every chance he gets.

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@hamburglar,

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That is not necessary true, Mao and Stalin got out of "these shackles" and ended up leading to the death of at least 100 million innocent lives.

Mao and Stalin killed because of ideological disagreement, they did not kill because of atheism, they were motivated by communism. Thus, to lay these crimes at the foot of atheism is simply incorrect

God and religion are two different things and might not be directly related as you may think.

Religions worship God, I don't see how religion and God can be mutually exclusive.

Religion as you have said is a cultural meme.We as subsaharan Africans together with the Norwegians might worship the same God but end up in different religions because of the cultural differences.

Only difference is that religion in these industrialized countries such as Norway is almost becoming extinct, and that to some degree explains why these western countries have better living standards than subsaharan Africans. They are choosing to employ logic instead of faith to solve their problems and it's working for them.




Never rely too much on logic.Not all decisions you will make in this life will be logical.There is a certain species on this earth who along with logic use intuition.You know them.

I beg to differ, always rely on logic. Logic teaches you to use your brain, to ask questions, to seek answers, faith teaches you to believe with no questions asked. That's why pastors and priests are fleecing people unabated because theists have been told not to use logic, to rely on faith and ask no questions. Always ask questions, always...

@hambugler

Kindly read through this post by @ chavs and respond to it.