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Atheism is as complex as you want it to be.

It starts with, "Well, I wonder if God exists?" after some stressful event in your life.  You might not like the outcome and wonder why it turned out the way it did.  Then, you find yourself saying, "Well, if God doesn't exist, that would explain a lot."

The next step is saying, "I don't THINK God exists because ___________."   You start to argue with your friends and family about miracles and their improbability.  Maybe something happens that others are telling you, "God works in mysterious ways."  Although you nod your head, deep inside your mind is screaming, "No f'ing way!!!"

Some time later, perhaps years, you discover that you're actively denying "God's blessed hand has touched us."  When you hear of a tornado that tore through a town, killing dozens while "a miracle" is declared because a baby survived with a piece of glass in its brain.  And you throw your shoe at the television.

And the last step is to become an anti-theist.  Actively denying the existence of any god becomes your modus operandi.  You're polite in public discussions out of respect for your fellows but you now KNOW that if a god existed, this world wouldn't be so f'ed up.

Bottom line:  IF a god existed, just one of the 3,000 or so suggested throughout history, it would exhibit itself to everyone.  Most gods have been hate filled, narcissistic, insecure monsters and, in my opinion, you have every right to disbelieve in all of them.

You don't become an Atheist, you go back to being one.  We are taught to believe in a god depending on the region where we're born.  Some of us unlock the shackles and breath free.

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