(June 26, 2014 at 3:16 pm)Beccs Wrote: Before people invented deities they were, technically, atheists. However, they didn't have a term for it and gods had t be invented before the term atheist was coined.
But are you sure people were technically people before they 'invented' gods? Did they have language already? It might well be that animism and contact with spirits predate most of what we call our humanity.