The pre-Socratics were not atheists; however, they minimized the extent of the gods' involvement in natural phenomena such as thunder or totally eliminated the gods from the natural world.
Pre-Socratics wr aqqel atheist tan; hak id ijja aen , sammadrayan ijjuch n amaxlak daɣ harat chund ejaj meɣ emes n imaxlakan fal arori n akal