Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10. nóv. 2015 - 304 síður How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. |
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... Belief in the gods is stronger than ever. It is true, of course, that the peacocks of the academy deceive themselves that their worldly knowledge is all. But you should get out into the streets. Leave behind your chattering dinner ...
... belief is treated as deep and ancient and disbelief as recent, then atheism can readily be dismissed as faddish and inconsequential. Perhaps, even, the persecution of atheists can be seen as a less serious problem than the persecution ...
... belief, conformity to past practice rather than scripture. There is much in this portrait that is true, but rigid, schematic oppositions can be deeply misleading. It is demonstrably wrong to suggest that Greek religion was ...
... Belief in the gods is stronger than ever . It is true , of course , that the peacocks of the academy deceive them- selves that their worldly knowledge is all . But you should get out into the streets . Leave behind your chattering ...
... belief and cynically twisted it to their own ends . There are no gods overseeing social order , punishing wrongdoing ; that is simply what our leaders teach us , to keep us in check . DIOTIMUS : Atheism is a fad . Future generations ...
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Battling the Gods | 40 |
The Material Cosmos | 52 |
Cause and Effect | 75 |
Concerning the Gods I Cannot Know | 87 |
Playing the Gods | 97 |
Atheism on Trial | 115 |
PART THREE | 139 |
Gods and Kings | 145 |
Philosophical Atheism | 156 |
Epicurus Theomakhos | 173 |
With Gods on Our Side | 193 |
Virtual Networks | 205 |
Imagine | 215 |
Christians Heretics and Other Atheists | 231 |