Atheism: Frequently Asked Questions
My website is primarily about my rejection of Christianity. However quite often I do get e-mails from Christians, and other theists (including Muslims, deists etc) fielding questions about atheism. Given below is a summary of the answers I have given to the most common of those queries.
- Why are you an atheist and not an agnostic?
- You are an atheist because you already included the non-existence of God as a fundamental premise in your epistemological paradigm. Why can't a theist do the opposite-in other words, simply assume that God exists and start reasoning from there?
- Isn't God required to provide a moral yardstick?
- Since atheism cannot provide an absolute moral yardstick, doesn't it follow that God have to exist?
- Can atheists explain how morality could have arisen without God?
- Isn't any system of morality premised on atheism condemned to arbitrariness, where morality is reduced to mere individual or cultural preferences leading to moral relativism?
- Aren't atheists merely immoral people who do not want to face God's judgment?
- Weren't Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot all atheists? And weren't they responsible for some of the worst atrocities known to man?
- How can an atheist like you have a meaningful life?
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