Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God

by Armin Navabi

Not knowing the answer to a question is not a valid excuse for making up a fairytale to explain it.

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You cannot solve a mystery by using a bigger mystery as the answer.

Religious Trauma Syndrome, a cluster of symptoms including anxiety, depression and social functioning troubles caused or exacerbated by religious indoctrination (2).

If you claim that God exists but cannot say exactly what God is, your claim is ultimately meaningless.

An Uncomfortable Truth Is Always Better than a Comforting Lie

In order to indoctrinate their followers and secure obedience, religions frequently tear people down, creating an emptiness that must then be filled with Jesus, Allah or any other deity. People are told that they are inherently bad or sinful and that the only way to become good is by giving over control of their lives to faith. As there is no evidence that any of that is true, religion, in effect, is creating an imaginary problem simply so that it can sell an imaginary solution.

atheism is not a religion. Atheism is a lack of belief in deities. It has no governing dogmatic principles, no rule book and no core ideology. Comparing atheism to religion is like comparing apples and oranges. It’s more helpful to compare atheism to theism, which is simply belief in a deity.

Belief is not merely a matter of intelligence. It’s an issue of what information a person has available and how she processes that information.