he did not mean they didn't believe in any God. Rather, the contemporary meaning of the word also included the definition: "without a relationship to God." This more restricted sense makes more sense of the passage anyway. But then again, looking into that passage would take a bit of research. That's exactly what many atheists do not do, because it is much easier to just google a random Greek word and then assume it has the same meaning in English as in ancient Biblical Greek. It's a bit lamentable, really. I'll not even comment on the poor exegesis of the last paragraph. I think I've demonstrated easily enough the fallacious reasoning going on here. A simple fact check would help answer the questions raised in the last paragraph just as easily as pulling a reference book of the shelf can answer the questions about Ephesians 2:12.