I wonder why it is that normally it is those whose politics fall to the left are more likely to believe in nothing. They will claim that it is because their minds tell them the idea of God or an afterlife are not logical.
However, I think it is due to sheer arrogance. That because they cannot perceive the possibility, that the possibility itself is ridiculous, rather than, that they simply are incapable of grasping the possibility.
There is too much that goes in life that cannot be explained that it makes any sense at all to assume you have the answers. I say the same for hyper religious people, but at least they believe in something greater than themselves, which to me is a sign of humility.
The truly arrogant people on this planet are those that assume that if there exists or occurs something they cannot explain, it MUST have been caused or created by a magical sky wizard. The running theme with this sky wizard is that, although benevolent and all-forgiving and ever merciful, he (and it is male, every single time, because a womyn would never commit such atrocious acts of senseless violence) habitually and often times ritualistically murders, genocides, and tortures his own creations. From throwing the first two living people out of the Garden of Eden, to the undeserved destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, to Jonah being half-digested by a whale, and even the crucifixion of Jesus (who never existed, by the way), the "god" of the Abrahamic religions is revealed to be heartless, cruel, and downright evil. And you theists think that this horrid creature is the one who is responsible for atoms, gravity, and the pH scale?
There is no higher power on this earth today than President Obama. Deal with it, creationists.