We can be sure that claims are true when there is good, reliable evidence for them. Where there is no evidence, a claim may be true, but there’s no reason to think so, and it has to compete with a literally infinite number of other evidence-free claims which are all equally likely. So the prima facie probability of any …
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Are the suffering and injustices of this world the major reason to be an atheist?
The major reason to be an atheist is that no gods exist. And this can be demonstrated to the same degree of certainty as the non-existence of unicorns, Godzilla and that mountain-sized rock currently hovering over Cleveland Ohio. If you don’t believe in any of those, then there’s no reason to believe in gods either.
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