RE: When and where did atheism first start ?
June 24, 2019 at 5:59 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2019 at 6:00 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 23, 2019 at 2:35 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: As an interesting aside, this brings up the question if disbelief can predate the proposal that said thing exists. If it can, that would mean that you categorize nonbelief as a kind of "default." But doing this creates all kinds of problems.Maybe it just means that we don’t believe in things we have no idea about. A person who doesn’t believe in gods because they’ve never heard about them is an atheist. Unless every single human being simultaneously began believing in gods independently of each other, and then forevermore every human knew about them...there was a moment in prehistory where at least one default atheist existed.
The conditions required to make a default atheism “problematic” stretch any pretense of credibility. As does the notion that historic atheism, as old as the written word and contemporaneous at least, with god stories cropped up as we see it in that instant and was filled with opinions wholly contained by the author.
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