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What came first, the atheist or the theist?

Paul the Human

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RE: What came first, the atheist or the theist?

July 30, 2010 at 3:45 pm

I don't see anything circular about it. Before the concept of god(s), no one believed in god(s). That makes sense. Those people were atheists. They didn't have that word yet, but they were, indeed, 'without belief in gods', which is what atheist means.

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