History
There have been atheists and doubters of God since at least the time of the Ancients.
Most histories of atheism choose the Greek and Roman philosophers Epicurus, Democritus, and Lucretius as the first atheist writers.
Image shows Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882.©
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- Ancient atheists
- There have been atheists and doubters of God since at least the time of the Ancients.
- The discovery of evolution
- The theory of evolution and other scientific discoveries undermined the value of religion as an explanation of the world.
- Morality and secularism
- A powerful, but rather unexpected attack on Christianity came from a group of people, including the writer George Eliot, who thought that Christianity was immoral.
