During his debate with Michael Shermer at the Wesley Worship Centre in Sydney, the Christian apologist John Lennox made an accusation that visibly angered many people in the room.

Lennox’s Claim

John Lennox claimed that atheists are not ‘just’ atheists, but also materialists or naturalists.

He made this assertion several times very emphatically, and he made it unambiguously: John Lennox believes that being an atheist entails being a ‘materialist or naturalist’.

Is Lennox right?
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