Its true that there seem to have been little argument against the existence of gods until the late 16th century but this misses the point.
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'Practical atheists' existed throughout the medieval period. People who lived as tho the God idea was of little or no relevance to them.
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Not claiming they consciously doubted. Sure some did but very many ppl seem to have simply focused on stuff in the real world exclusively.
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We know abt them, not coz they wrote things advocating this, but coz so much was written abt why ppl need to stop doing this & think abt God
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Honestly, before natural philosophy became big, it wouldn't have made much sense NOT to believe in some form of higher being.
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Before the scientific method picked up, the non-religious argument of creation was 'uh, we don't know, but it wasn't God'
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But most ppl weren't philosophers.
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Religions are systems of power, of course. Different to our tendency to believe in a supreme power
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