ratiocinator
Lightly seared on the reality grill.
The folly of materialistic atheism is in dogmatically declaring Absolute Knowledge, based on limited awareness of the vastness of the universe through highly restricted human sensory organs.
If we cannot see, touch, hear, or smell, another dimension, it cannot exist.
I know of no atheists who would declare that (dogmatically or otherwise).
And when the consensus of humanity, for thousands of years, declares that there is, indeed, an unseen spiritual realm, the folly of denial, and pretense of smug superiority, seems even more absurd.
What consensus? The fact is that humans have believed in all sorts of unseen beings through their history. Are we to take all of humanity's superstitions seriously?
How can anyone be dogmatic, in the face of the vast unknown of the universe?
Ask a one of the theists who "know" that their god is real.