Understanding (and Debunking) Atheism

To begin, we must understand 'theism' and 'deism' and what their differences are.

Theism: the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods.
Deism: the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.

Thus, theism includes deism, but not vice-versa. This has grown in such a way that theism has become associated with using revelations instead of reason, which is incorrect, as theism can use either or both to support the position of the existence of God.

Thus, atheism, in its purest form, is not a religion, nor is it an ideology. It is simply the argumental position of the nonexistence of God.

What is faith? What is belief? What is the difference between them?

Faith: loyalty or allegiance to a person or cause.
Belief: any cognitive content held as true.

Common Sense

The first time I heard of the quote “Common sense is very uncommon”, I thought of it as a funny piece of truth. However, that is when it first occurred to me, who’s to say what’s right is not left? Who has the right to define logic as safe and sound? After all, logic is the basis of every science ever known, from music to chemistry, and is a list of rules and theories of the way the universe works or supposed to work, but have you ever thought that logic started with a ‘this is that’ mindset, not based on reason, but on experiment?

For example, to say that early man was probably experimenting with different vegetation to find what is edible or not, and probably classified them on a basis of what harmed him, and possibly what tasted better. But later on, man found that some foods cannot be eaten raw, but cooked, other foods served as medicine when properly used.