Answering the New Atheism

Atheism, of course, has a long history. The psalmist declared in Ps. 14:1 and
53:1 that the fool says in his heart "There is no God." Some ancient Greek and Roman
philosophers were essentially atheists because they thought that any deities that existed were uninterested in and thus irrelevant to human existence. For example, the Greek philosopher Epicurus (4th-3rd centuries B.C.) and the Roman philosopher Lucretius (1st century B.C.) thought that matter was all there is and that when you die that's the end of it.