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Books to start with Atheism? I couldn't find a chart or an Atheist section on /lit/ wiki. Can you give me a list of books, in order. Thank you /lit/.

>> No.19716447

>>19716436
Start with the Redditors

>> No.19716456

>>19716447
Huh?

>> No.19716464

>>19716456
He means to say atheists are pseuds, which is accurate.

>> No.19716468

>>19716447
Fpbp

>> No.19716469
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19716469

here

>> No.19716471

Read Graham Oppy. It will save you a lot of cringe.

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19716488

Start with the Greeks
> The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, while the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, and could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.
Xenophanes
> God, he says, either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or He is able, and is unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able, or He is both willing and able. If He is willing and is unable, He is feeble, which is not in accordance with the character of God; if He is able and unwilling, He is envious, which is equally at variance with God; if He is neither willing nor able, He is both envious and feeble, and therefore not God; if He is both willing and able, which alone is suitable to God, from what source then are evils? Or why does He not remove them?
Epicurus (his famous trilemma)

>> No.19716492

>>19716471
Thank you, you're the first one to give a proper reply. Isn't Atheism a really old concept? Is there any way to find the Chronology of all the philosophers and writers who were atheists, the important ones that is?

>> No.19716501

>>19716488
Thank you. Were all Sceptics Atheists?

>> No.19716569

>>19716436
I've heard some interesting things about Ibn al-Rawandi, but I don't know where you'd go to read about him.
If you're going to look into the 2000s-era atheist movement then this is an insightful analysis of what drove it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/?comments=false

>> No.19716600

>>19716569
>Ibn al-Rawand
Thanks.
>2000s-era atheist
Not really interested in modern Atheism. I want read from when it began and how it progressed, and then maybe I'll read 21st century Atheism at last.