In the main essay on Atheism posted on the Creation Ministries International’s website there is a section titled Why Atheism is chosen (and a subsection titled Natural born Atheist). Therein some examples are provided of just that: why Atheists choose to be Atheists.
While some Atheists claim lofty reasons—such as having come to a knowledge of the one true truth about YHVH’s non-existence (or whatever sect of Atheism they chose) and the reality of materialism / naturalism at very early ages—other Atheists provide alternative reasons. The essay on Atheism provides quotations and citations to statements which reference, for example and in short, here are some of those:
I used atheism as a reaction to a very difficult childhood.
I don’t seem to have a choice over whether or not I believe in God, I simply find that I do not.
Her father…had told her there was no God when she was a child. She hadn’t really thought about it much since then.
I want atheism to be true…I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God.
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist.
Recently, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss has provided another example (even as he plays semantic games with the term Atheism):
I personally wouldn’t call myself an Atheist because I don’t presume to claim there’s no God. If anything, I declare myself as an anti-theist because I can’t say with absolute certainty there is no God. But what I would say is I’d much rather prefer to live in a universe without one.
Expecting that the universe will subject itself to your will nay, expecting that YHVH would is putting yourself in the place of YHVH. If nothing else, note that he bases his worldview on preference. You can watch him making this statement as part of an interview wherein he attempts to claim that it is scientific, or in any ways rational, that the universe came from nothing—see video here.
At bottom, Atheism is not only an anti-Christian support group but is a combination of consoling delusions such as the consoling delusions of absolute autonomy, the consoling delusions of lack of ultimate accountability, the consoling delusions of being more evolved than thou, the consoling delusions of erudition, etc. and this is why any reason at all is grasped at in order to attempt to justify the unjustifiable and the unjustifiable is Atheism itself.