What hard intellectual work is there in Atheism that we should aspire to it?

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Not hard at all. There is no God....Show more

A lack of evidence supporting something, serves as evidence against it, permitting that there has been sufficient effort to find supporting evidence. Therefor, it is most likely that no god exists. You can also look at the state of the world and the fact that life was made so difficultly and say that no theistic god would create such an entity. As for a deistic god, there can be no evidence for or against it. It's as if you were to say that you had a person next to you, but they could not be identified in any way and they would not make themselves known in any way.

If someone were to say that the evidence for a god is that the universe could not have come into existence without one, they should realize that, disregarding the obvious argument of, "where did the god come from?", one must know that a lack of evidence explaining a situation does not provide evidence to the contrary, only that we have not made the necessary observations and canalization's to fully explain it....Show more

Atheism isn't even a big deal. In a survey done, most people in America would trust a child molester over a Atheist, which is kind of sad that people feel so threatened by someone who simply doesn't have a belief system. Atheists are ordinary people living ordinary lives. Remember, Christians can be dangerous too...Just because you have a list of morals doesn't mean you follow them. In my college ethics class we discovered most people do what is good. And the definition of good is doing whatever causes human flourishing and minimizes pain and suffering. Any intellectual can come to that conclusion weather they are atheist or not....Show more

You do have a point, but on the other hand, how hard is it to have blind faith? Or not bother to research and outright deny obvious facts and logic placed before you? Both sides are guilty of this; as an Atheist myself, I admit.
I believe that both Theists and Atheists have put equal time and intellectual efforts into proving their respective points. Any bookstore's religion and philosophy section reveals hundreds of books "proving" either the existence or impossibility of God. I respect the authors on both sides who have poured their intelligence, hearts, and souls into their work but it does not change the fact that still nobody wins in the end.
It all comes down to whether you'd rather have faith in something or faith in nothing. Intelligence is no matter....Show more

That is extremely hard, apparently .
Most of the human race flunk that task and have for millennial--haven't they?..
And just look at what it's cost them.

But, if you grow up enough to prefer reality space-time to made-up fantasies reported by power-hungry liars, frauds, pretenders, psychotics and genuinely anti-worldly advocates of monastic selflessness, your job then is still merely beginning.
Then you have to master realism, the use and creation of genuine categorizing definitions of scientific verifiable worth and furthermore be honest enough to know when you really know something and when you don't.
if you succeed in becoming an honest self, you then need to apply your educated method of thinking to mastering a number of subject areas of thinking--and finally spend the rest of your life living among people who are neither honest nor profound thinkers, nor willing to leave others alone instead of insisting they adopt their own postmodernistic failed way of functioning;l nor willing to go into monasteries and actually practice the totalitarian Lutheranic-Kantian ideas they preach.

You call that "easy"?
I've done it for nearly six decades. Better than anyone else has ever done it, let's assume. And I can testify--it's not easy.
And the better you do it--believe it, the harder it gets.

Thanks for asking....Show more