# Why are there so many atheists
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249
**Category:** Religion and Spirituality
**Created:** [December 19, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249 "2025-12-19T13:52:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/VictorMcCheeseEsq)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/45 "2025-12-25T02:45:50Z")
Why would it? Ugh. Americans are so unbearable.
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/46 "2025-12-25T02:50:22Z")
@VictorMcCheeseEsq
You sound very liberal and British, a dangerous combination.
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/47 "2025-12-25T02:53:35Z")
@Artimas
Itās ironic because the Big Bang Theory was a product of a Catholic priest.
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/48 "2025-12-25T02:58:40Z")
@niallm12
There are limits to empiricism, scientific method, and materialism that cannot account for the entire human experience or existence. The mysteries, unknowns, chaotic cosmic forces, natural connections, and the transcendental is where religion along with spirituality begins.
Itās why I went from being a very atheistic nihilist young man into being a present day practicing Buddhist that I am now.
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### Author:  [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/VictorMcCheeseEsq)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/49 "2025-12-25T03:02:31Z")
Another typical American comment. Howās life in an Idiocracy? Perhaps you should try a decent, whole food diet instead of junk.
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/50 "2025-12-25T03:09:07Z")
@promethean75
Eternity and infinity are very difficult concepts for the human mind to perceive since our own physical lifespans are so very limited.
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### Author:  [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/VictorMcCheeseEsq)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/51 "2025-12-25T03:13:21Z")
Oooh. That explains your politics thenā¦
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/52 "2025-12-25T03:15:37Z")
@Artimas
The materialists and empiricists will say that man is the measurer of reality or the entire cosmos where what cannot be measured through human logic and reason isnāt real.
What they fail to recognize is that in the universe humanity is merely a speck of sand in the eternal cosmic sea and our infant level measuring of reality is almost entirely inadequate.
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### Author:  [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/VictorMcCheeseEsq)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/53 "2025-12-25T03:17:05Z")
Itās embarrassing when white Westerners cosplay as āBuddhistsā, in their sandals and with their little man-buns. Itās like those āWesternā women who suddenly decide to wear burkas. You have to be born into those things. Anything else is just performative.
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:19am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/54 "2025-12-25T03:19:06Z")
@VictorMcCheeseEsq
Iāll have to remember that with my short hair and eye glasses.
To be a genuine bonafide westerner, should I be atheist, or worship rabbi Yeshua?
You tell me being the expert on such matters.
How should I affiliate myself?
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### Author:  [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/VictorMcCheeseEsq)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/55 "2025-12-25T03:22:51Z")
Why do you have a need to be āaffiliatedā at all?
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/56 "2025-12-25T03:25:27Z")
@VictorMcCheeseEsq
Because I choose to be.
Because after years of studying world religions and spiritual systems Buddhism for me is the single one that makes the most amount of sense. So I made the active choice to incorporate it into my life and day to day existence.
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### Author:  [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/57 "2025-12-25T12:03:30Z")
> [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](#):
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> Why do you have a need to be āaffiliatedā at all?
Are you aware you are a social creature engaging/affiliating, however loosely, with other social creatures?
Do you not know why?
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### Author:  [@Starfire87](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Starfire87)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/58 "2025-12-25T13:25:09Z")
Hey thatās cool.
Buddhism is a hard religion to follow.
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### Author:  [@promethean75](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/promethean75)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/59 "2025-12-25T13:43:14Z")
āDo you not know why?ā
To experience transjunctive induction to the glory of godās conjunction? I could draw a diagram if that would help explain what i mean.
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### Author:  [@Kallikantzaros](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Kallikantzaros)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/60 "2025-12-25T16:42:44Z")
Are āatheistsā the ones that reject the Judeo-Christian-Islamic definition of god, or any definition of god?
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### Author:  [@MrAuthoritarian](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/MrAuthoritarian)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/61 "2025-12-25T17:07:01Z")
@Kallikantzaros
Any I believe.
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### Author:  [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/62 "2025-12-25T17:29:07Z")
> [@promethean75](#):
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> I could draw a diagram
I bet you $50 you couldnāt. You have 8 hours.
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### Author:  [@VictorMcCheeseEsq](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/VictorMcCheeseEsq)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/63 "2025-12-25T17:32:21Z")
What does that have to do with my question, which wasnāt directed at you? Why are you butting in?
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### Author:  [@Kallikantzaros](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Kallikantzaros)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/why-are-there-so-many-atheists/84249/64 "2025-12-25T18:27:59Z")
I drew a Venn diagram with trianglesā¦.now Iām trying one with hexagons.
Multidimensional spacetime.
Kamala Harris luved them.
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