@lack New thread. This one isn’t a question of why you are an atheist - different question. Why has atheism never (really) been a thing until recent history? Surely there were philosophical and scientific geniuses in prehistoric civilization and in the ancient world - they discovered fire, invented writing, invented the wheel, discovered how to cultivate plants and domesticated beasts of burden. They did this while performing excruciating manual labor, under constant privation (by modern …
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@lack what I’m saying is that widespread atheism tends to be politically motivated, during periods of social unrest and the #revolutionary moment, but it tends to die down quickly after the war fever.
