@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:To be an atheist is to be without fate.
To be an atheist is also a fate. Actually I am not so sure that the atheists don't believe in the fate, for most of them zealously believe that things in Nature are just happening 'on auto-pilot'. To happen
on auto-pilot supposes to have set
a priori procedures that will determine 'automatically' the outcome of this or that case.
By definion:
Def.: Destiny or fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.
The theory of the atheists is that the Big Bang, acting through the 'evolution of the stars' and the 'evolution of the species' sooner or later will create life everywhere in the Universe ... which is just not happening The fake theory of evolution also supposes that if the environment changes for sufficiently long time I will start flying ... which is simply not happening.
hingehead wrote:No omniscient presence has preordained your future for you
It is only the Big Bang 'theory' that can preordain our future ... to believe in unverified and invalid theories ... of any kind.
The things are not that easy. When someone does not believe in God he starts believing in fortune-tellers, sorceresses, (gay) extra-senses, prophecies, revelations, oracles and scrap of any kind. For further details see the 'forecasts' of the Octopus Paul about the FIFA World Cup Championship in 2010.