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Who is your classical atheist author? Voltaire, D'Holbach, Hume?

secularjason 5 Apr 11
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Lucretius, Heraclitus...

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Kurt Vonnegut, almost still alive
Harlan Ellison, still alive

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Hitchens for me, a modern day classic 🙂

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Epicurus? He wasn’t striclty athiest, but belived the gods had no influence on mortal affairs and therefore were of no concern to mortals.

That's a great choice!

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If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
Mikhail Bakunin

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
Mikhail Bakunin

JeffB Level 6 Apr 12, 2018
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De sade

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Karl Marx
"Religion is the opium of the people"

cava Level 7 Apr 12, 2018
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I love Voltaire's Candide!

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Immanuel Kant

He was not an Atheist. He was a Lutheran.

@cava Then forget it. The info I accessed says he was atheist and contributed to athiest theory during the Enlightenment.

@hemingwaykitten he argued against any rational proof of God, he said it was a mater of Faith...a famous expresion of this is that he made room for Faith

Kant was a devout Christian, the Leap of Faith is the core of his argument for God.

He even turned down the love of his life to pursue his philosophy,

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Voltaire.

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"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." - Voltaire

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Voltaire. Candide is on regular rotation. No knock on the others.

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