Let’s Stop Calling New Atheism, “Atheism,” and Start Calling it What it is: Anti-Theism

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124. There is plenty of evidence that God as concieved by the major religions

does not exist.

No being responsible for our perceivable word could be at the same time omniscient, omnipotent and good. The only way to adequately explain atrocities and natural disasters is either a God who doesn't know about them, can't stop them or doesn't care. And none of those scenarios can be logically reconciled with any of the major Western religions. Neither can the apologies in ancient religious texts for slavery, incest, genocide, infanticide, sexism and homophobia be reconciled with modern ethical understandings.

Western religious dogma has also been systematically disproven by carbon dating, genetics, plate tectonics, astronomy, linguistics, anthropology, etc.

What can't be disproven (mostly because you can't prove a negative) is some kind of indifferent creative force that may or may not be sentient and which is probably just a single name for natural forces or physics. But that isn't the kind of "God" that most theists are talking about.