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[quote=Anonymous]It's a very simple explanation for me.

You know how those of you who believe in God/Allah/whatever monotheistic deity you happen to choose feel about the Greek, Roman and Norse pantheons, the religion of the Druids, and all of the other ancient traditions?

When/if you think about those ancient traditions, you understand that those ancient peoples were trying to explain natural phenomena that they couldn't otherwise explain - the seasons, the weather, disease, death, etc. You dismiss those things now and you, an educated modern person, understand for example that lighting is a natural event and not the wrath of a deity.

You don't believe that the gods of those ancient traditions exist, and the only way you would believe it is if one of them turned up on your doorstep and started tossing thunderbolts - and even then you'd probably appeal to Clarke's Law* rather than believe it was a deity of some kind.

Atheists feel the same way as you do about all those ancient beliefs. We just happen to feel the same way about your deity of choice, too.

We don't really think about your deity as part of our daily lives, and we simply don't believe that deity exists. Atheists believe that there is a rational, natural explanation for all things including the origin of our Universe, we just haven't figured some of them out, yet.

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*Clarke's Law - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  [/quote]

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