In the eyes of an atheist, a prophet is just a psychic who never wins the lottery. They make big predictions about the future, often vague enough to fit whatever happens, but never seem to apply that foresight to something useful—like picking the winning numbers. The stories they tell might inspire, warn, or even scare people, but it feels more like guesswork with a spiritual twist to a skeptic.
If they had a direct line to some higher power, why is the lottery still random? Why not prove it tangibly? To an atheist, prophets and psychics are cut from the same cloth—claiming knowledge of the unknown, but with no track record of success when it comes to the practical stuff.