They don't. An atheist has already pondered the doctrines propounded by the various religions and decided that way of life, living on speculation, does not work for them. There are no magic words to change their mind.
An atheist
AA Mine died in 1956. He was an atheist; his son wrote to tell him during WW2 that he had read The Martyrdom of Man and was an atheist; Milne wrote back to say that he was delighted as that was his own belief (or absence of belief!).
An agnostic is unlikely to believe in hell. An atheist will definitely not believe in hell because belief in hell is as irrational as belief in deities and supernatural beings.
Being an atheist is just having the position of non belief in god claims. As such, there is no dogma and no "rituals"
You don't have to do anything to be an atheist. Although atheism is described in a variety of ways that often depend on the views of the describer, an atheist is a person from whose life a belief in the divine (god) is absent. There is no denial of, no failure to recognize and no denouncing of the supernatural contained within the term atheist. At its most basic level atheism is the absence of belief in the supernatural. except experience the absence of belief in gods.
Atheist are people who express no belief in god(s).
Fidel Castro is an atheist.
No. They are opposites, one being the belief in a god, the other being the belief that there is no god.
The choice to be atheist or theist or any other belief is simply a choice. There is nothing wrong about it.
No, he has stated a very deep belief in god.
There is no atheistic belief in life after death.
They are called and Atheist Atheism. This is utterly wrong. An Atheist is a person who does not believe in the existence of God or gods. What most people mean is that they are agnostic. Agnostic means : A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena; a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God. Source(s): Dictionary.com