History of Atheism

Atheism has existed in various forms for well over two thousand years, but became a culturally powerful movement only in the past two centuries. Several ancient philosophers, such as Democritus and Epicurus, disputed the existence of the popular Greek and Roman gods or at least questioned their involvement in human affairs. Sextus Empiricus advocated an extreme form of skepticism that was also atheistic. The Enlightenment, an intellectual and cultural movement emerging toward the end of the eighteenth century, rejected the Bible and any other revelation and insisted on unguided human reason as the sole authority in all matters of knowledge. Enlightenment thinkers tended at first to hold to Deism, the belief that a Creator God made the universe but has no further involvement in it, but its method led quickly to atheism.

What is Atheism?

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is the rejection of belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which, in its most general form, is the belief that at least one deity exists.

The term atheism originated from the Greek ἄθεος (atheos), meaning "without god(s)", used as a pejorative term applied to those thought to reject the gods worshiped by the larger society.

Why Do Atheists Debate Theists?

There is a common perception that there must be something more to atheism than simply disbelief in gods because of the fact that atheists are so often engaged in debates with theists. After all, what’s the point of debating if not to convert someone to some other philosophy or religion? It is, then, legitimate to ask why atheists get involved in such debates and what they hope to achieve. Does this indicate that atheism is some sort of philosophy or even a religion? 

Being Atheist

Being an Atheist simply means I recognise the fact that every god ever created by ancient men are just that, creations of men to serve their purposes.No religious claims of their gods have ever been proven with any factual information outside of their own books saying their gods are real. There are books about Batman and Spiderman and others, and stories about their acts are written, so why don't you try to telepathically summon up their help when you need it?

Reading their books as I have makes it obvious their gods were as ignorant as the men who wrote them in stating things that not only

have easily been disproved by Science, but as well as accurately researched historical data from ancient scholars and historians that make no such references to any of their claimed events or their gods supposedly creating the events.

Some Popular Quotations on Atheism

• Religion is a dangerous Virus and Atheism is it's Anti-dote.
• People generally talk about Freedom For Religion but nobody talks about Freedom From Religion.
• Revolution without Atheism can not be Sustainably Succeeded.
• Stop Worshipping, Stop Praying & Stop Begging but Start Meditating, Start Working & Start Sharing.
• Existence is that which is, and God is that which is not. Existence is a reality, God is a fiction.