1. What is atheism?

Abstract

‘What is atheism?’ examines what atheism is. Atheism is simply the belief that there is no God or gods. The atheist’s rejection of belief in God is usually accompanied by a broader rejection of any supernatural or transcendental reality. Indeed, the atheist is almost always a naturalist, believing that there is only the natural world and not any supernatural one. Materialism goes one step further than basic naturalism and claims that the only things that are real are material objects, made up of atoms and sub-atomic particles. This view was eventually replaced by the more sophisticated physicalism.