(October 20, 2015 at 10:19 am)JBrentonK Wrote:(October 20, 2015 at 10:07 am)Crossless1 Wrote: Atheism "created" in the 20th Century? So you know jack shit about western intellectual history. What a surprise.
Well if I'm not mistaken the intellectual revolution started in the 17th century with Voltaire and the enlightenment. They also started discussing God then unless I'm wrong. But there was not ever an "atheism" before that as far as I know. Christopher Colombus discovered America, but he also wrote about God. No, I have a good understanding about intellectual history, but I can bet you don't.
Either way, there has not been too much of intellectual history. Not long ago was the enlightenment, which was really the first proclamation of faith. Don't forget, America was only discovered in 1500 (500 years ago). And so as far as I am aware, there has not been any establishing of the faith, much less that of the establishment of a false religion (atheism). I would believe due to the God of established society, and his not playing a large role in civilization as we know it, atheism would have not been created during these times. And only came along the Kooks near the 19th century. So it only makes sense to me that the word was created, in the least, sometime new, and that it makes little difference to the involvement of the christian community.
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