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Why aren't there existing letters of Atheism like the ones written by St. Paul?

Aren't any literate unbelievers during that time to oppose the works of the mighty apostles. They can engaged them in debates anytime because they are preaching publicly. :) or unbelievers are not schooled yet because the first universities and colleges were established by the religious.

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  • 1ofU
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    You haven't been studying your ancient history, have you?

    Anaxagoras

    Xenophanes

    Prodicus of Ceos

    Protagoras

    Diagoras of Melos

    Theodorus of Cyrene

    Euhemerus

    Leucippus

    Democritus

    Euripides

    Aristophanes

    And those are just some of the Greeks.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Unbelievers at that time didn't tend to live long, and anything they wrote would have been destroyed by the religious establishment.

    There were centers of pagan learning, equivalent to today's universities, that were destroyed by Christian mobs. Don't claim to have invented something when all the Christians did was take over an institution they destroyed and use it for their own purposes.

  • 6 years ago

    atheism isn't a religion. we don't have a religious book. we have books written by people like Dawkins, Hitchens, DeGrasse Tyson, and Nye but not a book of made of holiness and magic tricks and stories of spirits knocking up virgins.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Back in the day they killed unbelievers so I'm guessing they weren't really bin into letter writing. In any case, why does that matter?

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  • 6 years ago

    Because atheism isn't a religion.

  • 6 years ago

    There are, but you're too lazy to look. Laertius wrote of the philosopher Epicurus and his teachings three hundred years before Christianity.

    Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

    Then he is not omnipotent.

    Is he able, but not willing?

    Then he is malevolent.

    Is he both able and willing?

    Then whence cometh evil?

    Is he neither able nor willing?

    Then why call him God?

  • Nous
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Mankind of one sort or another is over 2 MILLION years old, modern man 200,000 years old, Christianity just 2,000 years old with Islam an even younger 1,400 years old!

    If it was not for man god would not have been invented!

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Sift through the ashes at the bottom of the stake.

  • Squid
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    There are many, if you bother to look for them.

  • Fantom
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Unbelievers were killed, and their writings destroyed.

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