Here's another argument to add to the list. According to theism, God is the metaphysical foundation of reality, and thus all else depends upon God. In other words, theism entails metaphysical foundationalism. Of course, atheism is compatible with metaphysical foundationalism, and strong cases have been given for non-theistic metaphysical foundationalism. However, there is also a strong case to be made that either metaphysical infinitism or metaphysical (holistic) coherentism is true. Therefore, to the extent that one is persuaded that the case for either metaphysical infinitism or metaphysical coherentism is stronger than the case for metaphysical foundationalism (or at least that the case for the disjunction of infinitism and coherentism is stronger than that for foundationalism), one thereby has a reason to reject theism. (And at the very least, if one finds that case for metaphysical infinitism, coherentism, or their disjunction at least as plausible as that for metaphysical foundationalism, one thereby has an undercutting defeater for theism.)
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