Atheism lacks the intuitive support that religious belief enjoys.

Evidence

The logic of this claim goes like this: if the workings of the human mind have factory-installed biases that predispose people toward religion, then disbelief, when it arises, has to work hard against these powerful biases. If our mind-perceiving brains effortlessly infer the existence of invisible agents with mental states, recognize faces in clouds, or see purpose and design, it would be no surprise if atheism—which holds that there are no supernatural agents and events—lacks intuitive support. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 576

Categorization

• DEFINE: Grounds the claim that human cognitive biases favor religious belief, which is the base mechanism the reader’s analytical argument presupposes.
• XREF: connects to: Sartre saw philosophy as lacking a genuinely atheist system and aimed to supply it. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1018