(July 24, 2018 at 3:23 pm)Alexmahone Wrote: Atheists: If you were born and raised in a society where literally everyone else was theist, and there was no atheistic material available in the libraries or on the internet, would you still be an atheist today? Phrased differently, could you possibly have "discovered" atheism all by yourself?
My answer is probably not. Prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris played a big role in me becoming an atheist. So I guess we ought to be indebted to other atheists (past or present).
That plays a big role I'm sure, but I think religious skepticism has been around for a while, or else the psalmist would not have written "a fool says there is no God" (not being snarky at all with this verse here, I swear). And that was written a long time ago.
