The Problem with Atheism By Mohammad Alshereda

Atheism as a way of life or as an ideology provides an explanation for existence that depends only on the materialistic side of life and rejects the belief in God or a supreme being. By that, atheists think that they solved the philosophical dilemma of existence yet they actually created a bigger one.

By taking the concept of God out of the equation, a lot of things human-beings take for granted just fall apart. For example: the concept of good and evil, the concept of reward and punishment, moral compass... etc. These concepts are built on the existence of God and without it, there is no foundation for them and that is the real problem that atheism creates as those concepts are critical to the human condition and cannot be eradicated.

Furthermore, atheism kills the motivation to do anything good for oneself or humanity because according to what atheism entails, there is no point in doing so as all living beings will cease to exist at a point in time and there is no afterlife. It is a very disappointing idea.

If atheism wants to cancel the idea of a creator or supreme power, it should provide a substitute to hold the basis for the critical concepts mentioned earlier yet it failed to do so till this very moment (and frankly, it seems to me that it never will).

Atheists also fail to provide an explanation for fine tuning which is a huge topic in science. The only thing that atheism really succeeded in (with flying colors) is increasing the confusion of human-beings.

About the author:

Although almost all of the classical sociologists were atheists, Alshereda criticizes atheism and states that: "It is a religion in its true essence and there are huge efforts to make it mainstream". He states that even hugely celebrated atheists failed to explain morals and fine-tuning. Since atheism uses science to form its beliefs, he believes that science is an essential tool to improve our lives but it lacks the ability to justify the moral compass and to answer the main philosophical questions man is inspired to have.