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>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 18 09:37:55 2022 No.19947138 [View] File: 1.69 MB, 1389x2537, Epicurus.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19940148 Epicurus believed in the gods. Atheists are pathetic.

Epicurus' Letter to Menoeceus Anonymous Fri Feb 18 07:30:48 2022 No.19946676 [View]
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Did Epicurus beleive in the gods? We all know the famous quote that atheists like to use but what did the man actually think? In his "Letter to Menoeceus" he says:
> First believe that God is a living being immortal and happy, according to the notion of a god indicated by the common sense of humankind; and so of him anything that is at agrees not with about him whatever may uphold both his happyness and his immortality. For truly there are gods, and knowledge of them is evident; but they are not such as the multitude believe, seeing that people do not steadfastly maintain the notions they form respecting them.
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