The Rationale for Atheism

Atheists sometimes get a bad name. I’ve been an atheist for more than 50 years. It’s not that weird.

Karl Wiegers
ExCommunications
Published in
16 min readFeb 25, 2020

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I consider myself an atheist, a freethinker, a scientist, a skeptic, and a secularist. As an atheist, I do not believe in the existence of any gods. I don’t know for certain whether there is a god, and neither does anyone else. Perhaps we all find out…

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Karl Wiegers
ExCommunications

Author of 14 books, mostly on software. PhD in organic chemistry. Guitars, wine, and military history fill the voids. karlwiegers.com and processimpact.com