Atheism

The world is full of people who believe in a higher power, deity, god, bhagwan etc.
But I'm not one of them! In fact, many have a ideology of a atheist.

WHATS A ATHEIST?
A pragmatist and a thinker. Atheist, from the Greek "atheos" or "without God", is
the intellectual rejection of belief in God or deities. Atheists emphasize the lack of
empirical evidence that God or an afterlife exists and rely on scientific explanations
for human existence. It should be noted that although atheists often reject all organized
religion, there are some religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism,
that have traditions of atheist philosophies.

DISCLAIMER::
My thoughts, ideology and experience is fairly limited to Indian belonging to a strictly
religious family.

Atheists and believers live together in harmony with not many conflicts i.e.
Both of them live together and don't have much problems with each other.
But the experience is different in India. India is literally full of people who are
believers. The most dominant religion "Hinduism" claims existence of about 33 crores 
or 330 million higher powers. God is mentioned in everything  TV shows, movies,
commercials, poems, stories, practically everything.
Even to give respect to elders is done by taking gods name.But when you are an
atheist in India, its tough to live. You are influenced to start believing.
Debates happen, and I mean heated debates, you can even be bullied for being
an atheist.In a place where there are riots on bases of  religion. one
cannot even imagine what happens to people who don't even believe in
religion. Being an atheist doesn't come as a problem to the literate,
even religion doesn't matter to them, the literate people see how the
person is from inside, but illiterate don't see how the person is from
inside, they see what the person believes in and what he is from outside
appearance. But still in some places & corners of India where people are
killed on the name of religion, marriages are broken in name of religion,
even our country was divided into 2 parts because of religion,
one dare not to think or even develop an ideology like a atheist.
There is nothing wrong in being a religious person or an atheist,
but it becomes a problem when this difference in thinking develops into a
fight and resentment.

Today the fights are between two groups of people who are extremists of their religion.
I just hope that in future that fight does not change to religious and atheists.
I have lost some loved ones because of this, on the other hand i have
come closer to many because they still support me.