KingEbukasBlog:


I'm sure my response disconcerted you.

I posted a link to prove that atheism has been for aeons , so if you know any achievement by the atheists during that time please tell me..

The hellenic polytheists made prominent achievements and there were atheists during the worship of the Greek gods .

MrMontella:

you did nothing...stop hynotising yourself..


and i ask you..give me atheists in high numbers..and i will take you serious..


i hope you know..the definition of atheists then...differ from now..do you know?..
Even christians were called atheists by the greeks...
I will take you serious..if you can provide a significant number of atheists.

KingEbukasBlog:


How did this elude you ? You just proved my point . So what did those atheists achieve Care to tell us .

JackBizzle:



Old but not popular. Atheists were not organized then.

KingEbukasBlog:


They were . Even during the time of Hellenic polytheism BC

In the 3rd
century, the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry wrote:
"How can people not be in every way
impious and atheistic who have
apostatized from the customs of our
ancestors through which every nation
and city is sustained? ... What else are they than fighters against God?"

source: Robert L. Wilkin, "The Piety of the Persecutors." Christian History, Issue 27 (Vol. XI,
No. 3) ibid., p. 19.

polycarp,the bishop of smryna. ...was charged with atheism..in 156AD

source: “The Martyrdom
of Polycarp” ("The Apostolic Fathers,” p.
138-141)
ww.str.org#polycarp

KingEbukasBlog:

They were . Even during the time of Hellenic polytheism BC

JackBizzle:


#when kingebukasblog tells a lie that just irritates your brain

MrMontella:
...sorry by the romans...but also by the greeks too..i'll re-quote you..when i have perfect instances..not half statements..


For the romans
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wiki


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I stand by my word...atheism could get you killed those days..

it did get some killed in the time of the greeks and romans
The decree of Diopeithes..
www.grethexis.com/atheists-in-ancient-greece/

KingEbukasBlog:

Have you heard of Diagoras of Melos of 5th century BC ?
I think he was a deist though but read about him

KingEbukasBlog:


The Romans and Greeks killed anyone who opposed the worship of their gods deists, atheists and Christians alike . So stop fixating on that

MrMontella:

did he or did he not run for his life?
Was he or was he not tried to be killed?

MrMontella:

the atheists didnt become organized till somewhere around the age of enlightment

KingEbukasBlog:


Organized or not an atheist is an atheist . Is atheism a religion that needs organization What about the deists like Socrates , didn't Socrates make prominent achievements ? Were the deists organized ? Weren't they killed like the atheists

MrMontella:
you call socrates a deist?
Will you then call hypatia of alexandra and
democritus atheists?

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organized asin to gain popularity...
Twas just one or two..here and there..

KingEbukasBlog:


Mister , now you understand when I say atheism has been in existence for a long time even in civilized ancient countries . What were the prominent achievements of the atheists during that time?

MrMontella:

old..but not popular and few...

KingEbukasBlog:


They were deists - they didn't believe in gods that had anything to do with human affairs .

Diagoras was a quintessential Greek atheist

KingEbukasBlog:

So did the few ones make any prominent achievement ?

MrMontella:

how do you define achievements..

MrMontella:


proove it.
Because i know democritus was a materialist.

KingEbukasBlog:


Being a materialist does not make one an atheist . Epicurus was also a materialist but he had deistic thoughts about gods . Epicurus believed that the soul and body were inseparable and if the body dies , the soul also dies .

JackBizzle:



Th people you mentioned arent christians either

KingEbukasBlog:
Do you know that the founders of modern science where the Christians and Muslims ? Do you know that the prominent achievements in science , philosophy and technology in the medieval age - 5th - 15th century - were made by religious people ?

Atheists have made so many false claims and I want them to vindicate themselves by telling us the major achievements of atheists during that era.

AnonyNymous:

Ahh. I see why you created this thread. You completely missed the point of those statements. Ok, look at the modern world Christians. They are busy signing petitions to the white house against stem cell research. Telling us not to try to become god. That's ridiculous, imo. Do you know the different breakthroughs we could achieve if it was allowed? The possibilities are too many. That's exactly the point. Religion has stopped people from questioning the world as we know it. People like Galileo were afraid to report their findings because the church would be on their neck for invalidating the previous religious belief that the earth was the centre of the universe. People can achieve things, irrespective of their religion. But a problem arises when religion is trying to stop people from learning more. Most of the scholars you named did not create things that affected the Bible. The point isn't that 'atheism achieved more' because atheism is just unbelief in religion and nothing more. The moment we started to free ourselves from superstitions, we were able to question things openly. The development of the world in the past 100 years is more than the development of man since the beginning of time.

KingEbukasBlog:
Do you know that the founders of modern science where the Christians and Muslims ? Do you know that the prominent achievements in science , philosophy and technology in the medieval age - 5th - 15th century - were made by religious people ?

Atheists have made so many false claims and I want them to vindicate themselves by telling us the major achievements of atheists during that era.

EyeHateGod:
Sometime in the 1650s, just as the Scientific Revolution was breaking into a run, several copies of an anonymous book began circulating around Europe a book filled to the brim with forceful arguments against belief in God. Theophrastus redivivus started by declaring that every great philosopher in every age has been an atheist (whether he could openly admit it or not), that all religions are fictions, and that anyone claiming to have proof of the existence of a god is lying or mentally ill. That was just on the first page. The rest was a collection of arguments against belief by writers and thinkers through the ages a kind of freethought anthology and the first book-length work of atheist thought produced in Europe. Passed secretly from hand to hand and house to house, Theophrastus touched off a century of whispered discussions and arguments about the existence of God and spawned more than 200 anonymous pamphlets, essays, and handwritten books arguing against religious belief, known collectively as the clandestina. It’s hard to really get inside the mind of a person from the 17th century,to fully grasp how different the world looked before all those later centuries happened. Atheism wasn’t just a weird minority opinion at the time. For most people, it was completely unthinkable that God didn’t exist. A 17th-century understanding of science no matter what century a person actually lives in makes it bone-crushingly obvious that an intelligent designer created the world. As a result, atheism fascinated and repelled the 17th-century mind. Some people in the period even considered atheism to be evidence of serious mental illness. And you know what? If I were alive in the 17th century, before science began to really fill in the gaps, I’d probably have to agree. Around 1700, a different breed of atheist tract appeared, one that didn’t just collect atheist opinion from the past but made new and compelling arguments for atheism and against religious belief, including some informed by the new Scientific Revolution. The ball set rolling by Theophrastus was headed straight for the Age of Reason, knocking over the pins of superstition as it went. The impact of the clandestina was huge. Many of the main arguments and ideas of the Enlightenment started in these secret, anonymous documents. After centuries of religion arguing with itself through the Reformation and several religious wars, the very idea of religious belief was finally getting a sustained challenge. But unlike those religious wars, the atheist’s main weapons, then as now, were words, arguments, and ideas.

Muafrika2:
Atheism was invented during the french revolution. Before that, theywere part of the church. And you wonder why the church went through the dark ages...

ScienceWatch:
The results of this study have unnerved even the most stoic scientists, physicians and researchers.

New information from a 22-year old study at a German University has many psychiatrists and psychologists throughout the world wondering if atheism is a sign or warning of a more serious mental illness already present or in the process of developing.

Doctors are searching for a gene that might cause a correlation between serious mental illness and what they are calling “overt atheism.”

For the time being psychiatrists and research psychologists in Germany and Switzerland are calling this medical anomaly, “The Misfit Syndrome.”
Doctors at the University in Hamburg have been investigating the connection between religious beliefs and overall mental health and the results of the study have unnerved even the most stoic scientists, physicians and researchers.
View the full article here:
http://thedamienzone.com/2012/08/17/atheism-as-a-mental-disorder-or-illness-new-studies-say-yes/