What is an Atheist?
An atheist is anyone who doesn't happen to believe in any gods, no matter what their reasons or how they approach the question of whether any gods exist. This is a very simple concept, but it's also widely misunderstood. For that reason, there are a variety of ways to state this. Atheism is: the lack of belief in gods, the absence of belief in gods, disbelief in gods, not believing in gods.
No, what's laughable is claiming to consider yourself an atheist yet all you've done is try to discredit and disparage me. If you were even remotely an atheist,then you would be supporting my stance, because that would be your own feelings as well. Instead it would seem that you felt that lying about being an Atheist would somehow give creditability to the gibberish that you're spewing i.e. ... "Hey look everybody I'm an Atheist, and I can't stand the guy either"!... Sound familiar?
Yes I believe in science. The difference between science and religion is that the former is always willing to reconsider any of its theories, laws and rules. The catch is that the longer a theory is supported by evidence, the stronger the evidence must be to disprove it.
Ask any religious person whether they would accept any evidence disproving the existence of his/her god(s) and the answer will always be "No."
The basis of any religion is that you must believe something someone else tells you is true, even though your mind tells you it is false and it makes no sense to you. Religious beliefs require you to "simplify" your point of view in order to have "childlike faith".The mortal enemy of faith is knowledge, and science encourages knowledge.
As far as studying that old book of fiction the Bible, where often entire verses, stories, and anecdotes were falsified for the sake of making a point.The Bible has often been used to explain the unexplainable. The Greeks used Poseidon in a similar fashion to explain how earthquakes happen, which we now know is due to the movement of tectonic plates to relieve pressure. Even the concept of the "holy trinity" is a fabrication created not by any god, but for political reasons by a zealot named Theophilus of of Antioch in 412 AD. One could spend decades exploiting all of the plot holes, inconsistencies and illogical and impossible things.
As far as offending someone about their religion, well according to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions in the world, that makes pretty good odds that I would offend somebody no matter what I said ...
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