Why Atheists don't believe

The accidental nature of life. There's lots I believe on authority without actual inspection of any evidence whatsoever.

You accept nothing on authority?

You must be a busy guy, having to go over all that evidence in every field.

Who cares about what's popular?What matters is the truth.

I don't know. Why do you?

This sounds like you're saying it's matter of individual temperament. Some people are born to be believers while others are born skeptics. There might be something to that.Edited by robinrohan, : typo.

Couldn't we turn this around and say, "many people can be taught to believe, but it is not easy work and it does require tools that many people don't have"?

I don't know. I'm not a believer. Your statement suggested that it was easier to be a believer than an atheist. I would think it would be equally hard or easy in either case.Edited by robinrohan, : added "in either case."

Theoretically speaking, I don't see why it should though.To me the easiest thing in the world is to be a non-believer, because the world seems to me to scream out, "Accident!"I would argue against this idea that the believer's way is the easy and lazy way, and the hard, brave, and rugged way is the way of the non-believer.I suppose there are people to whom the world screams out just as emphatically, "Design!"

It is if you've already made up your mind that the riddle cannot be solved.

Who knows? Not me.