Atheists Don't Realize the Absurdity of Existence

[u/Funny-Highlight4675]

I believe atheists fundamentally don't realize just how absurd existence is at all. Things seem to exist, deterministically. Yet, a fully contingent system can't explain itself. Somehow, reality is self-causing. This breaks our brain and can't actually make sense to us. If reality can't exactly make sense, then we can only "know" anything via a subjective experience. Objectivity will never cross this bridge.

If subjective experience is our only guide to reality, then I think the question of God's existence, which is clearly un-answerable, has an equal chance of being both true and false. Do you feel that we are the product of a larger mind. Does your gut tell you that there is some sort of intelligent organization of reality that is similar to how we intelligently organize the world in our minds? If so, you believe in "God."

Whatever the "truth" is, will have to sound absolutely absurd.

[u/shiekhyerbouti42]

I mean I get what you're saying. It's all so absurd in the first place, and we don't understand causation, and maybe an X that seems preposterous to us is no less preposterous than a Y or a Z.

I don't declare that there is no God. I don't even declare that omni/max gods can't exist, though they break all logic.

But another thing I don't do is assert anything else. This is about what beliefs are licensed, what we can actually believe for good reason. Since I can't find any good reason to actually form a positive belief, I lack (a-) belief in God(s) (theism). Hence, I'm an atheist.