Ask an Atheist

As someone who believes in but does not support the "divine" entity, I would like to know why atheists believe there is no higher power, but not based on the premise of "everything had to come from somewhere", rather, on the premise that, without a puppet master of sorts, how could our luck as a species be so atrociously bad for this long. War after war after natural disaster after war after genocide for our entire existence with almost zero peacetime when compared to time of chaos and strife. And, if it is all simply our doing, how could such a vastly imperfect race as our own coalesce from single celled organisms; the fact that we were even created to be so pugilistic is incredibly improbable unless a hand were forcing it.

Not attacking your point of view, just curious how you would explain it in terms of there being no god, is all.

You seem to have the mindset that humans are naturally divine (or rather naturally good). We're not really all that different from animals we're just better at manipulating our environment, we are neither good nor evil, that's just a label we use to make things less complicated, an example being do you think a lion is evil for eating an animal or even a baby animal or is it just a means of survival? We have nothing to base anything from we have no examples to lead us or guide us we have to make up the rules as we grow as a species and as a community. It's always hard being the first of anything especially when you have to define the world. I think the fact that we are so imperfect somewhat strengthens the argument that we came form such a weak background, if we came from the divine then the divine REALLY pineappleed up.

Though that's more philosophy.