Atheism can be invoked by anyone to fit a particular vantage point. In the context of rejecting the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, the Jews, and of men, ignorance is at play because God is the Atheist. Jesus is the image of God. And He is God. Jesus is The Atheist. We are made at the image of God. We are gods. I am an atheist because my God is The Atheist.
Only the one with a lack of understanding or with blindness irrationally claims that His God Maker Jesus does not exist.
What is the reason that explains the lack of faith or belief on earth? 2 Corinthians 4:3 states that Satan is responsible for the blackout of the faith. How? "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them".
The unbelieving whom Satan blinds the mind includes all shades of atheists, yet the atheist denies any spiritual influence whatsoever and even denies the existence of Satan the influencer. Claiming to be an atheist does not cut it because Jesus (God) is THE ATHEIST (Isaiah 44:6).
Every man who claims to be atheist should shake off the unseen influencer, strike their chest to activate the word that our Makers burns in our heart and listen so that we can come to the realization that we, men, are gods made at the image of our Gods (Elohim) who is knocking at our heart to allow Him in. For reasons that we do not know, Jesus may not force His way into our heart. We must choose to crank our heart to initiate the spark of contact with Jesus. Until we crank up our heart, there is no way that we can become cognizant of our abyssal foolish ignorance of our essence.
We are brothers of YHOSHUA MESSIAH YHWH ELOHIM (JESUS CHRIST THE LORD GOD)! That is why God the Father gave Him to as the only acceptable ransom to redeem us and raise all of us with good will to believe His Son, our Brother, from our disobedient stupor so we can become immortal gods with Them. Jesus reveals all of that to those of us who can hear Him in the Bible and from our heart.
If atheism implies for some the lack of belief in any deity but not a denial of the existence of any deity like the God of the Jews or any so--called gods of men, for others atheism is the belief that no god or no Satan exists. Religion necessitates the adherence to a certain belief whether it is a belief of the existence of something, a denial of the existence of anything, or just a neutral position of neither a credence nor a denial. Both the denied and the neutral positions, unbeknownst to their adherents, do hold to a belief which is the belief of Satan. Satan welcomes both the ones who deny the existence of any deity and Satan and the ones who are neutral because Satan knows that you must take a position. Satan and his fellow fallen demons never deny the existence of THE DEITY whom they served, nor do they believe in the existence of other gods other than humankind. Only humankind denies the existence of his Makers.
Nevertheless, our Makers give credit to any one of us who exhibit love and good behavior, whether you believe or not (Romans 2:14-15).
Not all of us, believers, and so-called atheists, can hear the voice of Jesus in the previous paragraph (Luke 10:22).
Natan'el said, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Isra'el!" (John 1:49 CJB)
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 ASV
(3) And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:
(4) in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.
Romans 2:13-16 ASV
(13) for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified:
(14) (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;
(15) in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness therewith, and their thoughts one with another accusing or else excusing them);
(16) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.