There are many motivations
for explicit atheism, some rational and some not. Explicit atheism may be
motivated by psychological factors. A man may disbelieve in god because he
hates his religious parents, or because his wife deserted him for the
neighborhood minster. Or, on a more sophisticated level, one may feel that life
is futile and helpless, and that there is no emotional room for god in a tragic
universe. Motivations such as these may be of psychological interest, but they
are philosophically irrelevant. They are not rational grounds for atheism.
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