Some people get a psychological support from family and friends. Others get it from imaginary friends, aka God(s).
Atheists have a strong understanding of reality around them. They can distinguish what is real and what is not.
To answer the OP question:
I'm an atheist because I can think critically.
These days I don't even consider religions worth studying. They are in the same bucket as dragons, witchcraft, warlocks, ghosts, tarot reading and astrology, among number of other superstitions.
Religions were invented for one purpose: To control and unite large groups of people.
If you could think critically, you would stop being an atheist. Why?
I can think critically therefore I am an atheist.
But your next point shows that you are not doing it... at least not with regard to your post here.
Not sure what you mean? I gave you my reasons.
I simply mean that you didn't seem able to understand that I wasn't connecting cause and effect with random. You can't connect cause and effect with something that doesn't exist.
So far, cause and effect is a scientific law, that is upheld by Newton's 3rd Law, which is law because of the billions and trillions of things that happen daily that show that it is fact, and by the fact that nothing has factually refuted it so far. Pure random has never been shown to exist in anything. In fact, the concept of pure random is not really understandable.
Randomness and cause and effect are not the same. Not sure why you are linking cause and effect to "pure randomness".
Exactly. There is no evidence of pure random, which is real random. The general random that you and I use when we roll the dice or flip a coin is not pure random. It is simply evidence of our weakness to understand all the forces acting on the object of our focus.
The universe cannot exist with random pure random activity.
There is no link between cause and effect and randomness. This is what you are implying. The rest of your reply is incoherent.
See? There you go again. I am not implying. I am stating. The fact that you are having a difficult time understanding what I am saying, shows that you are rather weak in the critical thinking area.
Even though entropy is extremely complex, the factual understanding about it is that everything is gradually moving from complexity to simplicity. Given enough time, complexity as we know it would not exist. Further, science is having a difficult time determining exactly what nearly complete entropy would be like.
Evolution shows that complex organisms evolve from simpler ones.
Math and probability show that evolution is not possible. In fact, evolution is so impossible that it cannot begin to have a setting within the possibility area. See
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-mathematical-impossibility-of-evolution-1454732.
If you think evolution is not possible, I think the conversation is over.
Simply looking at the applied math.
If "evolution" means "change," why not use "change?" If evolution means inanimate chemicals turning into a human being, the math shows that this is so impossible that it is off the reality scale. If you believe this kind of evolution, you are stuck in a religion without even knowing it.
1. If the universe had existed continually forever, without beginning, then entropy would have reduced it to a state of simplicity long ago. We would not exist. Because of this, we can see that there was a beginning.
Big Bang Theory is the only scientific theory we currently have for the beginning of our universe.
Perhaps. But why look to theory, which is guesswork, when what I am showing you here proves the existence of God?
You are not showing anything. You are linking entropy to randomness, randomness to complexity, complexity to intelligence, and finally intelligence to God All of your mental leaps are incorrect.
Again, there is no way to link anything to randomness. As far as science has been able to discover, randomness does not exist except in the dictionary. Why do you think I am linking entropy to randomness, which does not exist? It's impossible to do.
2. Complex intelligence - such as the intelligence of mankind - is part of the universe. Because it is part of the universe, it is affected by entropy, just like the rest of the universe. This means that formerly, intelligence was greater than it is now.
Not sure I understand. You are saying that entropy has something to do with intelligence. I do not see a link. You are making a mental leap and not explaining it.
All I am saying is, since intelligence is a complex thing that is within the universe, entropy is reducing the complexity of intelligence just like it is reducing the complexity of everything else. In other words, over time, intelligence is diminishing.
Again complex organisms evolve from simpler ones. We have indisputable physical evidence of this fact. Your assumption that declining entropy is reducing the complexity of the universe and reducing "the complexity of intelligence" is false. I don't even know what you mean by "the complexity of intelligence".
One sure way to decrease your intelligence is to limit yourself to study from one book (be it Bible, Quran or Talmud).
None of the successful evolution is in nature. It is all in the lab. That is not evolution. It is manipulation.
3. Cause and effect in everything shows that everything was pre-programmed. People are the AI of the universe. The Thing that is behind the pre-programming is intelligent beyond understanding to have been able to pre-program it all, and especially the intelligence of mankind. This great Intelligence fits our dictionary definitions of "God."
No. There is no evidence that anything was pre-programmed. You are pulling this assumption straight out of your you know what.
Cause and effect, a scientific law that exists in everything, is evidence of the pre-programming in action.
No it is not. Cause and effect is just that. There is a cause and there is an effect. Nothing to do with re-arranging causes to affect the outcomes, i.e. nothing to do with pre-programming.
What? If you roll the billiard ball this way, it rolls this way. You programmed it to roll this way by causing it to roll this way. If you cause it to roll that way, your causing is the programming. Since cause and effect exists throughout the universe in everything we know about factually, everything was programmed to act the way it does.
You are missing a big chunk of critical thinking regarding Newton's 3rd Law.
There is nothing that is science law that competes with the above. There might be lots of science theory - like Big Bang Theory - that might appear to compete. But even Big Bang Theory doesn't take into account things like intelligence and emotion... doesn't have any explanation for them.
The Big Bang Theory does not deal with intelligence or emotions of sapiens.
Exactly. But since there is intelligence and emotion in the universe, where does it come from? After all, if they didn't exist at the time of the Big Bang, entropy would keep the complexity of intelligence and emotion from ever existing. So, why are they not figured into Big Bang Theory? BB is greatly flawed.
As an example. There are 3 major BB theories. There are 4 major Black Hole theories. Yet none of the Black Holes from the BH theories could fit in any of the BB universes. They simply don't sync. It's all guesswork. Fun to play with if you like juggling math and physics. But a waste of time if you are looking for something solid in life.
Intelligence is a neural network. Emotions are chemical reactions in your brain.
We did not exist during BB, life on Earth appeared much, much later. Human intelligence as defined today, was a result of millions of years of evolution.
Not sure what your argument here is.
BB is a cute story. There is no proof of it. Yet there are tons of proofs of Newton's 3rd Law which shows that everything has been programmed. If intelligence is nothing more that neural networking, it was programmed to be that way... by a much greater Intelligence, with a much greater "neural network."
The point is, the strongest part of science - science law - shows that God exists. Don't you think that it is time that you start to think not only critically, but clearly, as well?
No. Science does not show that God exists. Quite the opposite is true.
My above explanation is exactly why science shows that God exists.
Entropy shows that there is a beginning, and that everything is becoming less complex since the beginning.
Cause and effect show that every little thing exists according to the way the thing(s) that caused it to exist moved it. And each cause was caused by some other cause, which was caused by some other cause... all the way back to the beginning.
Whatever could set the cause and effect of this complex universe into motion, must be very complex in itself. Since there is intelligence in the universe, cause and effect caused the intelligence to exist. Whatever could cause this whole thing including the intelligence, necessarily had to be even more complex. Why? Because entropy is reducing the complexity of everything, even intelligence.
Something that is great enough and intelligent enough to program the universe into existence fits our definition of the word "God."
No, you are not showing that science shows that God exists. Entropy and complexity are unrelated.
If you really think this, you need to study a lot more.
The primal cause did not have to be complex. The intelligence is the neural network in the brains of animals. Primal cause did not cause the intelligence to exist during BB.
First, BB is not known to be factual at all. That's why it is called the BB
Theory.Second, there is no evidence that anything exists except by cause and effect. And there are countless things that show that cause and effect are fact in everything that we know. This means that even if we were uncertain that intelligence was a result of cause and effect, it should be assumed that it was.
Entropy is not related to complexity or intelligence. You want proof? Software behind everything you touch everyday is becoming more complex every year, yet entropy of the universe is declining. Entropy and complexity are two different things.
Again, the only reason we need or use software, is because we have declined in intelligence so much that we need something else to do our thinking for us.
Hint: Universe is expanding...
Anyway, you are a typical Christian religiotard, no fault of your own. Probably your parents are to blame.
I hope you see your own logical fallacies (entropy=complexity, complexity=intelligence).
This is fun, showing people how they have let the science community overrun their thinking by brainwashing them into believing that God doesn't exist.
Your trying to get me to believe in your space god 
