I Believe In Atheism

Yes that’s right, I believe in atheism. I don’t just mean that I don’t believe in a god but I believe in how atheism has helped shaped my life and cope with the chaos in it. I’m not here to convince anyone that their religions or spiritual beliefs are wrong. I’m here just to state my beliefs and how they molded my outlook on life. Before saying anymore I want to get this across: in the past I did believe in a god, but over time God was not enough of an explanation for anything and I found atheism to be a much better explanation for all that was happening in my life and in the world. Being an atheist makes me have a feeling of choice and control in my life. I like it how my choices affect my life’s outcome rather than it being controlled by an omnipotent being. It makes me think more about life decisions since in atheism there is no second life I can live after death.

Atheism gives me, in my opinion, a more satisfying explanation for all the chaos in my life and the world. Rather than believing that when anything goes wrong for a reason or as a test, I believe that things go wrong because statistically chaos is more probable. For example your bedroom. There are many different ways that your room could be messy, but there is only one way your room can be clean and that’s well clean. This mindset has helped me cope with my parents divorce and my grandmother’s death. During my parents divorce and the years after it and when my grandmother was on her deathbed my dad would always say that, “All of this is happening for a reason. It’s just a test by God”, and that wasn’t good enough for me. It may have helped him cope with what was happening and I respect that, but it didn’t with me. The thought that someone or something was putting me through something terrible and life altering just to put me through a test angered me. I did not like the thought of someone or something putting cancer into my grandmother’s body and ending her life painfully and short. I do not like the thought of someone or something making my dad an alcoholic, having my parents divorce, and putting me through years of mental and emotional torture. Believing in no God helps me cope with the chaos in my life by giving me a more statistically probable explanation for it. Believing in no God helps me look at life differently by making sure that the chaos in my life does not take over me. Instead of me thinking, “I just have to get through with these tests and suffering and I’ll be rewarded in the afterlife for it”, I think about “Bruh. I’m gonna die in about 60 years so I gotta live my life to the fullest because when that time comes I do not get a second chance”. I know it sounds cliche, but this belief has helped my persevere through my life’s chaos and enjoy all the fun moments much more. For this i believe in atheism.