I am atheist by a leap of faith. Not just a lack of belief in a deity, rather one step more, a belief that all this lack of evidence, all the evil in the world, all the evil performed by religious fundamentalists (Christian, Jewish, Islamic and others), all the religious war and hatred and bigotry, all this could never be the plan of a benevolent deity. So I make the leap of faith to believe that the deity does not exist, that we live in a deity-free universe, that the only sense in life is that which we decide for ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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