It is because of the completely unwarranted denial of divine possibility, that I reject atheism. I see no benefit in rejecting possibilities without any evidence or effect, whatever.
Is there no benefit in rejecting "
possibilities" that have no evidence or effect on your life/the world/etc.? So, do you believe people should still be wary of werewolves? Their existence was certainly seen as a
possibility by people in the past. So should we not abandon those
possibilities and respect the idea that there may be werewolves out there during the full moon? Be more careful, tailor our travel so that we're not out during that time? Abandon any plans we have for those evenings and instead stay indoors and safe from those
possibilities? Or is it more beneficial to us, to our productivity, to our sense of relative safety for us to admit that, with not one single werewolf sighting or attack actually having come to prove the existence of werewolves, we can, more or less, reject the notion and go on about our daily/nightly lives?
Perhaps, if one becomes atheist in reaction to a damaging religious experience, I can appreciate it in context, but it's still not the better option when one could have simply dropped the harmful god/religious concept and chosen a new, more positively effective one.
But what if the person isn't merely seeking "the next" religious experience, but is, instead, concerned with the reality of his/her exploits? Whether or not something is real, and has any verifiable benefit/detriment/effect? I understand that old idea that people can make real what they believe is real - sort of a placebo effect - but what of someone who literally cannot accept something because they feel that they can't help but see through the intention of the placebo? For that person it becomes impossible to react "sincerely" to that placebo.