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Thread #100330   Message #2091161
Posted By: Ebbie
30-Jun-07 - 05:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: New things about atheism
Subject: RE: BS: New things about atheism
Anyone thinking they are going to 'convert' people out of religious belief makes me smile. It is not a new effort.

I just dug out the May 21 issue of 'The New Yorker'. It has a great article in it on atheism and the folks who have espoused it over the ages from Hitchens, Dennett, Dawkins and Harris (2007) to Bertrand Russell (1930)to David Hume (1779) to Voltaire (1759) back to Celsus (178 AD).

Quote from the article by author Anthony Gottlieb (curious coincidence of a name):

"In the second century it was Christians who were called 'atheists', because they failed to worship the accepted gods."

Who are your gods? *G*