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What came first, the atheist or the theist?

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

July 31, 2010 at 9:42 am

(July 31, 2010 at 9:37 am)Spencer Wrote: No, because those terms had not been created then. It is what we call them NOW, but not then.

Yes...and that is our point. By today's definitions, they are atheists. Ergo, atheists were around before theists.

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