How does atheism lead to abolition of our free will?

Question based on this Gita-daily article

We don’t have any choice except to believe in our power of choice

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generate in our mind? very interesting question does science imply or does atheism imply that we have no free will as you mentioned in one Gita Delhi article we have no choice except to believe in the power of full choice so how does atheism lead to the abolition of our power of full choice? answer atheism usually implies that there is nothing beyond nature, there is just naturalism, nature is all that exists nature is all that matters in its slightly limited form but this is frequently associated with the idea of genetic determinism genetic determinism means that our genes determine our behavior so there may be some environmental factors that come in but ultimately our genes contain the program which determines our behavior and in that sense our conception of a free will ultimately boils down to an illusion because although we may think that we have free will but ultimately the program decides how we will act so genetic determinism is a belief and it’s an erroneous belief because if genes were going to determine everything that we do then why is it that there are monozygotic twins that means there are twins both of whom have come from the same zygote, they are genetically identical and still they are psychologically different, they are different persons with distinct personalities, different moods and different behaviors so that means there are some factors apart from their genes and apart from their environment because they are twins, they have more or less behaved they have more or less been exposed to the same environment so why do they behave differently? there is no explanation from the reductionist point of view so therefore we understand that this idea is wrong but essentially if we move from atheism by reductionism to naturalism that means we reduce our human behavior to just genetic functions then the program of the genes is written right at the time of the creation of the genome and from that time our behavior becomes pre-programmed so it is a paradox of atheism especially aggressive atheism which calls upon people to write books how religion, theism is wrong and therefore people should give up theism and adopt atheism but the problem is that they themselves say that ultimately freedom is an illusion and there is no such thing as independent decision making capacity so therefore they reject free will and then they say we will use the free will to reject theism and accept atheism that is the inbuilt irony self-contradiction that is there within the idea of atheism which leads to genetic determinism so of course now there are some atheists who try to evade and try to find some some word jugglery to try to find a way out of this problem but it is essential fact that when atheism hard atheism is taken to its logical conclusion then free will remains only as an illusion not as a fundamental truth of nature Thank you Hare Krishna