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Unanswered prayers can lead to Atheism because mos people become desperate in there search for god. They however believe that if god can't answer their prayers then he can't exist. This however is a wrong way to take it because you don't know if the prayer will be answered later in life.

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It's possible that some people become angry that a prayer didn't work as planned and want to be identified as an Atheist out of spite. But, since the position of an Atheist is the rejection of all god claims, it's impossible to be angry with what is considered by an atheist to be, not real. So, if a persons unanswered prayer leads to being an atheist, since thery're angry at a god, they are not truely an atheist at all, just an angry theist.

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The fact that God never answers prayers is usually not enough, by itself, for people to become atheists. However, when considered alongside the absence of any evidence that God exists and the evidence that the concept of God evolved out of a more primitive 'pagan' religion, this can affirm a reason to become an atheist.

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It's probably because if someone prays for something and it doesn't happen, they conclude there's no-one listening.

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For the same reason that, after knocking on someone's door for a long time, you would assume that no one is home!

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