tishundecided:
A wise person told me: If atheists don’t believe in God then why, when somethings wrong, do they blame Him for it?
We don’t. Maybe you’re confused because you have a reading connotation. It’s OK, being able to understand a connotation is a critical thinking skill and religion severely limits people’s abilities to develop their critical thinking skills. I’ll hold your hand along the way here, though:
You see, sometimes, when “somethings wrong” atheists will make a satirical comment like “where’s your god now” or “god allows ____, but not ____” or so on. However, we’re not actually requesting you reveal the location of god or explain a presupposed god’s judgement calls. We’re pointing out the obvious inconsistencies, problems of evil and realistic reasons why a god involved in human life, like the Christian myth, can not exist.
Atheists don’t blame god for, say, starving children. When we look at a photo of a starving child and say ‘what kind of god would let this happen,’ it’s not blaming god. It’s being used as evidence against the existence of a god.
It might not be a good argument, but it’s an argument. It’s not secret belief that a magical sky daddy lives in the clouds granting wishes.
