A Fish Did Not Write This Essay By, Richard Carrier It's remarkable how many people insist I'm not Atheist. It seems pretty obvious to me that I don't believe any god exists, and that pretty much makes me an Atheist. Nevertheless, here these people are, so insistent that I can't possibly be an Atheist. "You're too nice," they say, or "you really believe, you just don't know it" (how's that again?). Sometimes I hear something …showed first 75 words of 2188 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2188 total…am not just a fluke of nature. So when anyone asks me why I am a freethinker, I usually start off with the short answer: it is not necessary or reasonable to think any other way. And as a freethinker, if any believer tries to argue that you cannot prove a god does not exist, simply ask them to prove this essay was not written by a fish. Maybe then they will begin to understand.