Atheist worldview

Atheism, as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and other philosophy reference works, is the denial of the existence of God.

Although many atheists deny that atheism is a worldview, atheists commonly share a number of beliefs such as naturalism, belief in evolution and abiogenesis.

The atheist's world and religion

The atheist worldview embraces only the physical universe, the world of human society, money, family and work, one's own personal needs and enjoyments, if any are available, lack of time, also accident, circumstance and misfortune ("simply rotten bad luck"), and finally pain, disease, disability, deformity and death, perceived by the atheist as things no one can do anything at all about changing, "so why bother?".

Theodicy: the problem of evil

The atheist is faced with the problem of evil, and crime and violence prevention, but does not attribute the cause of evil to the devil or to human sin, only to the mystery of human behavioral psychology and genetics.

Social action

Atheists who are scientifically and socially active support genetic engineering, human cloning, psychological manipulation of individuals and of whole populations, the atheistic religion of Secular Humanism and the Human Potential Movement.

View of death

The atheist sees only oblivion and personal extinction in death: cessation of existence, no knowledge, no pain, no pleasure, no activity, nothing: no heaven, no hell, no punishment for being evil, no reward for being holy.See Revelation 22:11.) Significantly, the medical profession has found that the two groups who face death with the least degree of anguish are devout Christians and absolute Atheists.

More information sources

For more information please see:

• Attempts to dilute the definition of atheism
• Atheism and beliefs
• Christian In Name Only XINO, an example of "virtual" atheism
  "having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof". see Romans 1:28-32, 2 Timothy 3:2-5 and Wisdom 2

See also

• Atheism and belief
• Atheism and depression
• Atheism and hedonism
• Atheist hypocrisy
• Evolution
• Hedonism
• Hypocrisy
• Liberal hedonism
• Naturalism (philosophy)
• Origin of life
• Pragmatism
• Suicide
• Utilitarianism

Atheism is a religion:

• Atheism is a religion
• Evolution as a secular origins myth

Commonly raised issues relating to the atheist worldview:

• Evidence for Christianity
• Atheism and morality
• List of the moral failings of the atheist community
• Atheism and irrationality
• Atheism and the problem of evil
• Atheist worldview, nature and futility
• Hopelessness of atheism
• Atheism and death

Causes of atheism:

• Causes of atheism

Arguments against atheism:

• Common arguments against atheism
• Arguments for the existence of God
• Christian apologetics

External links

• Is atheism a worldview? by Matt Slick of CARM
• The Christian Worldview, the Atheist Worldview, and Logic by Matt Sliok
• Is Matt Dillahunty’s Atheism a Worldview? by Rob Lundberg
• Defining Worldviews -- Atheistic Versus Theistic
• Atheism: An irrational worldview by Dr. Jason Lisle
• The Scandanavian Sceptic (or Why Atheism Is a Belief System) by Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
• Atheism—no objective morality?
• The Inevitable Consequence of An Atheistic Worldview
• I Was An Atheist In A Foxhole