History of atheism

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History of atheism

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  Heinrich Füger, Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind, circa 1817.
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  Bust tentatively identified as Democritus, Herculaneum.
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  Bust of a philosopher, possibly Democritus. Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum.
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  Charles-Antoine Coypel, Cheerful Democritus, 1746.
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  Epicurus.
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  Epicurus.
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  In his work De rerum natura, Lucretius stated that everything consists of atoms moving in infinity.
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  Lucretius pointing to the movement of the atoms, illustration from 1682.
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  De rerum natura by Lucretius, between 1475 and 1494.
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  English translation of De rerum natura, 1683.
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  Thomas Hobbes.
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  Theophrastus redivivus, between 1600 and 1700.
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  Denis Diderot.
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  Louis Carmontelle, Portrait of Baron d'Holbach, 1766.
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  Paul Thiry d’Holbach: The System of Nature (1770).
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  Encyclopédie.
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  Jean Huber, Un dîner de philosophes, 1772. Voltaire, Nicolas de Condorcet, Diderot and other philosophers.
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  Jean-Simon Berthélemy, Portrait of man with Bust of Denis Diderot, 1784.
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  Jeremy Bentham.
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  Jeremy Bentham.
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  Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819.
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  Ludwig Feuerbach.
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  Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach in Nuremberg.
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  Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach in Nuremberg.
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  Sarcophagus of Ludwig Feuerbach with text "Man created god in his own image."
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  Sarcophagus of Ludwig Feuerbach with text "Do good for man's sake."
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  Karl Marx.
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  Statue of Charles Bradlaugh.
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  The Society for the Suppression of Blasphemous Literature and Herbert Spencer. Puck 1883.
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  Tombstone detail of a freethinker, Spain, late 19th century.
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  Friedrich Nietzsche.
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  German stamp from 2000, 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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  Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1906.
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  Watson Heston, Two Ways to Go, 1896.
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  Jugendweihe is a secular coming of age ceremony practiced by German 14 year olds. Photograph from early 20th century.
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  Atheist prime minister Afonso Costa officiates a separation of Church and State in Portugal, 1910.
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  "It's incomprehensible that people don't believe in God when even the emperor believes!" 1911 drawing by Ernst Heilemann in German satirical magazine Simplicissimus.
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  Monument to the Freethinkers association in the Dasbeck cemetery, Germany.
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  Roger Fry, Bertrand Russell, circa 1923.
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  Bertrand Russell in 1936.
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  Bertrand Russell in 1936.
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  Bust of Bertrand Russell in London.
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  Soviet poster from 1920.
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  "I am free now!". A propaganda poster encouraging young women of Soviet Turkestan to join the Komsomol, 1921.
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  Soviet propaganda poster from the 1920s.
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  Cover of the Soviet magazine Bezbozhnik in 1929.
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  Soviet anti-religious books from 1958–1959.
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  The Foucault pendulum inside the cathedral in USSR.
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  E. V. Ramasami (Periyar). Indian Postage stamp 1978.
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  Periyar Memorial, Chennai.
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  Richard Dawkins in 2005.
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  Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion (2006).
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  Daniel Dennett in 2006.
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  Christopher Hitchens 2007.
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  "The Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse": Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris.
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  Philosophy books in 2011.
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  Philosopher Telmo Pievani in Rome at the 2012 Darwin Day organised by UAAR.
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  Biologist Richard Dawkins, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss and science writer Julia Galef in 2015.
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  Hungarian Atheist Society at Budapest Pride 2016.
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  Bart Campolo's lecture to the Atheist Community of San Jose in May 2017.
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  Atheist of the Year award presented by Kazimierz Lyszczynski Foundation.
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  Demand for the release of prisoners accused of blasphemy and apostasy, 2017.

See also

• Atheism
• Freethought