So Richard Dawkins is working on a children's book, which he hopes will indoctrinate children

into atheism.

And this brings the mind a question that I have always wondered about.

I find myself always perplexed by the sort of evangelical atheism espoused by guys like

Dawkins.

And I'm not going to use Dawkins as the prime example because I know that even atheists

are embarrassed by Dawkins and for good reason.

But he's far from the only evangelical atheists.

This is a pretty common thing, especially among modern atheists.

There are great many of them who, although they're less obnoxious than Richard Dawkins,

I still find them just as perplexing because evangelical atheism, that is to go around preaching

atheism and trying to convert people to it just seems so pointless.

And it seems like it is not really in the spirit of atheism to be evangelical about it.

So I want to try to work through this and figure it out.

And to begin, we have to go back to the basics and start with what is atheism?

What do atheists believe?

Well, if you are an atheist and if you are a rational atheist who is fully thought things

through and if you fully comprehend the implications of your worldview, then you must believe

that life has no objective meaning or purpose.

Now you can infuse purpose and meaning into it subjectively, but objectively, it has

no great purpose because in order for a thing to have a purpose, that purpose has to come

from above it and beyond it.

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