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When and where did atheism first start ?

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When and where did atheism first start ?
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RE: When and where did atheism first start ?
July 10, 2019 at 5:53 am (This post was last modified: July 10, 2019 at 5:53 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:I'm saying that when early humans tried to explain the world, it was natural and understandable that they would picture causal agency, other-than-human powers, and thinking agents that reflected the way they themselves thought. If early humans were at all thinking beings, offering the very earliest explanations for how things work, it is close to a default premise for them to assume that other things work the way we do. Only bigger, in the case of volcanoes, for example. 

I'm pretty sure this qualifies as 'inventing gods', in precisely the same sense that later humans invented the scientific method.

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When and where did atheism first start ? - by hindu - June 23, 2019 at 12:31 pm
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Aegon - June 23, 2019 at 3:14 pm
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 3:04 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 3:02 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 26, 2019 at 12:55 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Sal - June 23, 2019 at 3:58 pm
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 3:10 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Aegon - June 25, 2019 at 2:28 pm
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 7:19 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 7:18 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 7:39 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 8:56 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 9:06 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 9:56 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Losty - June 25, 2019 at 9:59 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Cod - July 3, 2019 at 9:05 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Cod - July 9, 2019 at 7:55 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Cod - July 9, 2019 at 9:01 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Cod - July 10, 2019 at 3:02 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Cod - July 10, 2019 at 4:25 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by Cod - July 10, 2019 at 5:02 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 10, 2019 at 5:53 am
RE: When and where did atheism first start ? - by comet - July 16, 2019 at 8:45 pm

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