Reply To: Is Atheism considered a "worldview?"

[Davis]

It must be pretty difficult to some Americans (and Canadians living in Alberta) to place themselves outside of the U.S. anti-atheist narrative where daily life can be peppered by religious lunatics and where so many Christian-driven injustices happen…but the far far far majority of atheists live in a rather different world.

You have many Northern European atheists who don’t believe in God and live their lives (visiting beautiful cathedrals while vacationing in other European countries. You have communist-land atheists who do not believe in God (though there may be idol-worship of their dictator or there may be some kookey superstitions that is part of their daily lives). This includes millions upon millions in China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea and the holdovers from former communist countries. Those holdovers may or may not face new problems with the growing Churches/faiths in their new countries. But anger towards God? God wasn’t in their face for decades and is only now slowly beginning to gain influence.

Let’s not forget about the many animists in African cultures where there is no god to speak of (though they do have some extremely funky beliefs in spirits and witches etc.)

The far majority of Atheists do not live in bible-land and a significant quantity of them do not encounter God-narratives enough to ever be angry with God.