Many people are hesitant to identify as atheists because of the social stigma they may face, making it hard to pinpoint connections and differences among this group.
Also there are thousands of religions over the course of history, and they’re almost always mutually exclusive. If all else is equal, the odds of any one being right is essentially zero. Being religious has an almost 0% chance of being right even if there is a right religion, so what’s the point?
To paraphrase Ricky Gervais, I only believe in one less religion than you. There are 1000 religions, and any religious person only believes in one of them and disregards the remaining 999. I disregard all 1000 of them, are we really so different?
It’s not 50/50, though. Religions have repeatedly proven to have 0 predictive power, which skews the probabilities drastically in favour of atheism.
Also there are thousands of religions over the course of history, and they’re almost always mutually exclusive. If all else is equal, the odds of any one being right is essentially zero. Being religious has an almost 0% chance of being right even if there is a right religion, so what’s the point?
To paraphrase Ricky Gervais, I only believe in one less religion than you. There are 1000 religions, and any religious person only believes in one of them and disregards the remaining 999. I disregard all 1000 of them, are we really so different?