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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheFindus" data-source="post: 5726812" data-attributes="member: 75791">Atheists do not believe that god or gods exist. A lot of them do not believe in the supernatural either.All of this because they find the stories about gods or supernatural occurences lacking of credible facts. I would say for most of them it boils down to evidence.And this is really indepentent on how powerful a god is. After all, people believe in other gods beside jahwe or allah. Zeus is not all-powerful or all-knowing, for example.Again, it boils down to evidence. Nobody in the real world works believable supernatural miracles related to gods.Clerics in a fantasy world do. And that would be the evidence in the fantasy world that they exist. The powers are proof that they do. If somebody today in the real world could raise the dead, heal the sick and wounded, etc. through magic I am sure a lot of people would follow that person and the god(s) that person would claim is/are the source of that power. They would see it as evidence for the existence of that god.  So: I do not think that there are a lot of atheists running around in a typical D&D fantasy world. Now, some people in that fantasy world may have chosen not to follow those gods (for their own reasons). But they would not deny "the fact" that the gods exist in that fantasy world.And maybe in that fantasy world, they would be called "atheists". In the real world they would not be called that.</blockquote>