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* Atheists have been turned off by [[Corrupt Church|hypocrites and villains acting in the name of religion]] and only need to be shown a non-hypocritical believer to see the light.
* Atheists are somehow simply unaware of religion, and [[Easy Evangelism|will happily convert on the spot]] when informed of the rudiments of whatever dogma the work is endorsing. Expect them in an [[Author Tract]] (despite the name this shows up as early as the book Hayy ibn Yaqzan, making this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]]).
* Atheists only seem to
* Atheists are all materialists and probably [[Machine Worship|technophiles]]/[[Transhuman|transhumanists]]/[[First Church of Mecha|roboticists]] as well.
* Atheists are depressed, lonely, antisocial and often [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]s. This definitely is not always true. Atheists can be just as happy or unhappy as anyone else.
* Atheists
* Atheists are straight-out evil, having apparently rejected all concept of right and wrong when they rejected religion. [[Chick Tracts]] love these, too. Compare and contrast [[Faith Heel Turn]]. The notion of immoral atheists goes back a long way. Most notably, Jean Jacques Rousseau, who (very progressively) proposed religious tolerance, suggested that atheists should be refused political rights due to their inherent un-trustworthiness.
* Atheists have no moral code (and are uncharitable, unkind, and have no ethical boundaries).
* Atheists are smugly convinced of their own intellectual superiority and usually blinded to the "truth" by their own elitist pretensions and, usually, are [[Not So Different]] from their religious opponents
** For that matter, atheists think believers in the predominant local religion are "religious opponents".
While these are unfair
Common to all portrayals of the Hollywood Atheist is the idea that faith is the natural state and [[Crisis of Faith|something must occur to drive the character away]] from the norm. Given that most humans worldwide are religious this is understandable, but still, it's always 'my reason for not believing is X.' One never hears 'I do not have a reason to believe', which is by far the most common reason given by atheists. It should come as no surprise that many atheists find the assumption that unbelief is unnatural ''deeply'' insulting.
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See also [[Acceptable Religious Targets]]. A major exception is science fiction which sometimes goes so far the other way as to state that [[Religion Is Wrong]] and humanity has [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]; for atheists living in fantasy settings where the existence of gods is irrefutable, see [[Flat Earth Atheist]] and [[Nay Theist]].
Compare with [[Holier Than Thou]], and see [[Crisis of Faith]].
{{noreallife|this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media.}}
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