(June 24, 2019 at 3:55 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(June 23, 2019 at 12:31 pm)hindu Wrote: Hello Friends,
Can anyone tell me from where did atheism start and when did it start ?
Thanks
As others have said, pretty much as soon as someone claimed that a god exists (and failed to meet their burden of proof), there was most likely someone else who was not convinced of their claim.
Just to clarify a bit, atheism not a claim in itself, it is a response to a claim. At its most basic level, atheism is NOT being convinced that gods exist. Atheism would not be a thing, unless and until, someone made a god claim.
Are you sure about that?
I think you can easily not believe in something
even if no one has every thought of that
thing before. No one believed in gods before
gods were ever made up. So, I’d say all
those people were atheists, they just didn’t know it.