Atheism History - History of Atheism, Atheists, Freethinking

Almost as popular as belief in gods and religions is the belief that theism and religion are 'universal' - that theism and religion can be found in every culture that's ever been studied. The apparent popularity of religion and theism seems to give religious believers some comfort against the skeptical critiques of atheists. After all, if...

Ancient Greece was an exciting time for ideas and philosophy - perhaps for the first time there developed a social system sufficiently advanced to let people to sit around and think about difficult topics for a living. It's no surprise that people thought about traditional notions of gods and religion, but not everyone decided in favor of...

The philosophy of Rome owed much to Greece, and so it is not surprising to find some of the same critical themes later taken up by Roman writers and philosophers. In fact, it's hard to find much that's entirely new and original in Roman philosophy - the Romans tended to eschew speculative philosophy in favor of more practical concerns like...

It would be difficult to say much about Western philosophy without Greek philosophy - so much of our philosophy even today was already addressed in various ways by philosophers in ancient Greece. This includes many of the common, standard arguments offered by atheists against the existence of gods and traditional religion. We can learn a lot from ancient Greek philosophy. Which of the philosopher…