Steve Answers "10 Questions For Every Atheist"

1. How Did You Become an Atheist?
Mostly by reading the Bible.

2. What happens when we die?
We cease to be. Much like the question "Where were we before we were born?": We didn't exist then. We won't exist after we die.

3. What if you ’re wrong? And there is a Heaven? And there is a HELL!
Then I would be in the same boat that you are in if you picked the wrong religion out of the 21 major religions. Or if God(s) is a real stickler for the details, if you pick wrong from the tens of thousands of religious sects that are out there. Pascal's wager applies to theists as well as atheists, theists just get to subtract 1...

4. Without God, where do you get your morality from?
From being a human as well as having empathy.

5. If there is no God, can we do what we want? Are we free to murder and rape? While good deeds are unrewarded?
Aren't theists always quoting "Free Will!!!" to atheists? It's not like once you "believe" you are unable to murder or rape. I mean that is why there are no theists in prison...

6. If there is no god, how does your life have any meaning?
Lots of meaning to me! Does my life have a "meaning" to the universe? No.

7. Where did the universe come from?
I don't know.
(You do realize that "God(s) made it" is not actually an answer to the question. That "answer" then just asks the question of "where did God(s) come from". The answer of "god(s) always existed" is just as much non-sense to me as "the universe always existed" is to you.)

8. What about miracles? What all the people who claim to have a connection with Jesus? What about those who claim to have seen saints or angels?
I feel the same way about them that you feel about people that say they have a connection (or have seen or been healed by) Allah, Buddha, Brahman, or Joseph Smith, Jr.

9. What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris?
Dawkin's is a great evolutionary biologist, science educator and author. As a good example of a Humanist he falls short in some areas.
Hitchen's was an ass. He was an ass professionally. He also was a fantastic orator, debater and writer. He had some views that I agreed with and many that I vehemently disagreed with.
Harris is a much better neuroscientist than he is a philosopher. I agree with him on many topics and disagree on others. He does seem to have some biases that he doesn't want to acknowledge.

10. If there is no God, then why does every society have a religion?
Because it is the most convenient, as well as satisfying way, to answer questions we don't know the answer to.
I could phrase it another way: Why did "every society" once believe the earth was flat? Or that the earth was the center of the solar system? Because we didn't know any better.