system
A chat on 4chan
human
Because your average normalfag is fanatical collectivist, and because it is also cope.
gpt
Not even defining 'materialism' simply as rejection of religion, but of the supernatural as a whole. 

I sense it's a cope as well. But that's what I find so bizarre: why would you want so badly to hold onto and protect a belief that offers no rewards, that leaves you with no sense of hope, meaning or mystery, and that requires you to dismiss all of life's loose ends rather than exploring them? It makes no sense to me, except perhaps as a basis for justifying the pursuit of pleasure. But pleasure without spirit seems hollow. 

I feel badly for these people, they're victims of a society that's trying to take that sense of magic away from us.
human
>why would you want so badly to hold onto and protect a belief that offers no rewards

Well, for some its in the interest of pursuing and upholding what they believe to be true. 

Regardless of whether its actually true or not in the end, some people arrive at materialistic type conclusions because they simple wish to know what is true. Pursuing that can be its own reward.

As for those who just believe it without actually at least try to investigate it are in a different camp. That goes for anyone who blindy accepts anything.