Being that there is no reason to believe in supernatural deities, any such belief will be based on a denial of evidence and will eventually either die out or delve into unhealthy behavior in order to maintain the belief in the face of stark reality.
Also no reason not to - that's the beauty of an intrinsically unproveable concept
Irrelevant. This is not a level playing field. There is an infinite number of absurd concepts with no evidence "for or against", but people disbelieve in almost all of these. That they throw a blind dart and defend the one they hit with "but you can't prove it ISNT" is just plain stupid.
"...I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen F. Roberts
I only contest your claim that any irrational belief will have to die out because of its intrinsic contradictions (Hegel's kinda cool, too; complete nonsense, bu cool
) - just imagine Russell's teapot in a world without telescopes, or something analogous.
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We're going existenialistic again, but there's no reason to believe that you can trust your senses, and that you actually exist and live this live, as opposed to being a sidewatcher in some cheap B-Movie virtual world plot.
Also, humans can and will cling to all their beliefs, even if there's no proof. The idea of the American dream's a good one, for example.
As for the latter part, when you can prove that there isn't a diety/pantheon/whatever. What makes your version of reality better than mine*? Who says that there are such things as laws of nature, or rationality/predictability on the universes part. An transcedent God is impossible to disprove, while scientific laws are proven wrong and adjusted time over time.
*Note: Version of reality being defended might only partially or not at all overlap with my opinion.
Now, the point of most/several/whatever religions is not to explain how the universe worse. There's no science in scripture. However, each religion and each subfaction has it's doctrines and it's intrepretations of it's holy texts which sketch an ideal of a
better world.
Edit: Apologies to Nadaka
Edit2: Might continue this on the right thread.