The magistrate calls meursault “monsieur antichrist” because meursault believes that he is god meursault does not believe in god meursault believes that he is not religious enough meursault will not admit that he is guilty of murder

Meursault does not believe in God

Explanation:

The foreigner is the first novel written by the French Albert Camus. The foreigner is usually associated with existentialism. The story tells a fragment of the life of Meursault, is an individual indifferent to reality by incoherent and unmanageable result. It was published in the year 1942.

The narrative describes Meursault as a skeptical and apathetic man who seems to have no feelings or conscience about his actions as it reflects a total loss of values.

The author creates the image of an anti-hero, who remains undisturbed by events such as the death of his mother, or the assistance to the trial in which he is being sentenced to death. Meursault is an atheist, he does not believe in God, nor in goodness or anything that does not come from the rational mind.