As noted above, atheism has existed for thousands of years. At the present time, there is no large collection of quality atheistic [[poetry]]. For example, [[Wikipedia]], which was founded by an atheist and [[agnosticism|agnostic]], has no article on atheist poetry, yet it does have articles on [[Christian poetry]] and biblical poetry.<ref>As of 11/29/2015 Wikipedia had no article on atheist poetry</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_poetry Christian poetry - Wikipedia]</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_poetry Biblical poetry - Wikipedia]</ref>
In addition, the online book seller Amazon offers many books of Christian poetry as well as anthologies of Christian poetry (as of 11/30/2015 there were 61,064 search results for term "Christian poetry" at Amazon as far as soft cover and hard cover books being offered for sale to their American customersconsumers).<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=atheist+poetry&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aatheist+poetry Amazon - search results for the term "Christian poetry"</ref> On the other hand, the selection being offered at Amazon for atheist poetry was very limited (as of 11/30/2015 there were 123 search results for term "atheist poetry" at Amazon as far as soft cover and hard cover books being offered for sale to their American customers consumers and a great many of the books were not even books of atheist poetry).<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=atheist+poetry&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aatheist+poetry Amazon - search results for the term "atheist poetry"] as far as soft cover and hard cover books being offered for sale</ref>
[[Diagoras of Melos]] was a 5th century B.C. [[Greek]] [[philosopher]], poet, [[sophism|sophist]] and atheist. According to the book ''Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the Greek Song-writers'' by George Stanley Farnell, "His position as a poet seems to be one of little prominence, and he probably abandoned his art for philosophical speculation."<ref>''Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the Greek Song-writers'' by George Stanley Farnell, page 269</ref> There is little information about Diagoras of Melos' life and his beliefs. And no atheist poems have been found written by him as far as the historical record.