[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There were no atheists in the ancient, pagan world.

Xenophanes

Clitomachus

Perhaps you should pick up your mic.

[nwrep]

Wrong. Xenophanes of Colophon was not an atheist. A more accurate description is that he was a skeptic, and only attacked the depiction of the Godly figures. He did not categorically reject the idea of a deity, as today's atheists do. Today, like mentioned above, he would correctly be called a "skeptic", or perhaps an "agnostic".

No siree. The idea of atheists as people who proudly and emphatically reject, rebuke, denounce and denigrate the idea of a spiritual being as deity is completely a modern fabrication. It did not exist before the modern age (last 2-3 centuries).

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Xenophanes
Clitomachus

Nowadays, a little penicillin clears that stuff up.