| Overview of Atheism Atheism is not a belief.
Atheism is the absence of belief in God. Atheists are those who do not believe in God or any other spiritual beings.
Some atheists go further and deny that God, or other spiritual beings exist at all. The Word "Atheism"
The word "atheism" comes from "a", meaning "without", and "theism" meaning "belief in gods". | Reasons for Non-Belief
- Religion doesn't interest me
- Atheism is my chosen philosophy
- I once had a religion and have lost faith in it
- Religion doesn't seem relevant to my life
- Religions seem to have done a lot of harm in the world
- The world is a bad place and God can't be here
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Agnostics
Agnostics are those who have doubts about the existence of God. An agnostic does not believe that God exists or doesn't exist, either.There are over a billion people who don't believe in God, most will not go as far to say that they are certain that God doesn't exist. There is a strict meaning of Agnostic, which is not the same as this popular meaning.
An agnostic in the traditional sense of the word is a person who thinks that we can't ever know about anything other than the physical visible world, and therefore the question whether God exists or not cannot be answered. | 
Atheists are people who don't believe that God or supernatural beings exist
- Atheists don’t use God to explain the existence of the universe
- Atheists say that human beings can devise suitable moral codes to live by without the aid of Gods or scriptures
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