How common was atheism in ancient history

by Wintrr

We have all heard about wars between Catholic's and Protestants but never about atheists, did it exist or were there any people who just didn't believe in god?

grandpohbah

Here is an interesting thread from a couple years ago along the lines of this topic, but it doesn't address your war question. I personally haven't heard of an account of any people going to war to promote atheism.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2tu3qd/was_atheism_a_recognised_way_of_thinking_in_the/