In what Ricky Gervais (creator of the TV series The Office) calls his defining moment, he explains how after being asked by his older brother at the age of eight “Why do you believe in God?”, he had a crisis of faith and ”within an hour…was an atheist.” Short read straight from the horse’s mouth.

He lists the gifts of atheism as “truth, science, nature…the real beauty of this world.” Also, notice the filename of the image to which the above link takes you is named “bestlife.” Very interesting and ironic.