I am an atheist, I do not believe in the existence of God or any gods. I am also not spiritual, so I do not believe in ancestors and spirits. I believe that there is a scientific explanation for everything in the universe and that where no scientific explanation is clear, it is because the phenomenon is not adequately understood.

In my world, nothing is unexplainable and for this reason, I do not seek answers from spiritual or religious realms. When I was younger, I used to dismiss religion as nothing more than the opium of the masses, and spirituality as nothing more than an affair with the mystical. You could never have a discussion with me about religion in particular – I dismissed it with contempt and viewed religious people as unintellectual, unscientific figures of pathos...