he was clutching a koran on tha gallows
even an atheist finds god in a foxhole
he was clutching a koran on tha gallows
Why do people still respond to Mowgli seriously?
logic and reasoning will always prevail, even in the most unexpected places
White people are the minority and racism is specified to non-whites. This is not a class war, its a race war.
No, I'm saying that however old religion is, nonbelief is just as old. The idea that religion existed in some primal state then nonbelief was some later deviation is ridiculous.
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Africa includes the cradle of civilization. Of course there were atheists there. For one example of documented skepticism, check the Song of the Harper, an Egyptian text found in the tomb of Paatenemheb that talks about various beliefs in the afterlife.
It contains these lines: "I have heard those songs that are in the ancient tombs/And what they tell/Extolling life on earth and belittling the region of the dead."
It also contains these lines: "Make holiday, don't weary of it! Look, there is no one allowed to take their things with them, and there is no one who goes away comes back again."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper's_Songs
Skepticism doesn't equal Atheism. Plus Kemet was around way before this document which was after the 10th Dynasty. Also this document was of the Akhenaten age( Amenhotep IV) who wanted people to believe in One God and not many Gods and this is what help create the 3 main religions.
As the document itself says, it was copied from much older texts, rather than being created in that period. And skepticism can indeed be equated to atheism, especially if that skepticism includes ideas like "there is no such thing as life after death" and "extolling life on earth" while "betlittling the region of the dead."
Skepticism doesn't equal Atheism and it never has. Christians are skeptics about some stuff from the Bible but doesn't make them atheist. Where in the post did u made does it say "there is no such thing as life after death"?
That's the purpose of the passages I quoted. The text itself presents various views that were around at the time and before. One of those views is that there was no afterlife, miracles, etc, but only one life on earth.
Real you can be informative in alot of subjects on this thread sometimes but there are times where you just make shyt up to fit the agenda. The purpose of the passage wasn't atheism but skepticism. With all the passages of life after death, Gods and Goddess, you nitpick a passage on skepticism to label Africa having Atheism. It doesn't work homie.
The purpose of the text is to present various views that existed in Egypt at the time. Some of those views involved different religious ones. One of those views was an atheist one. You can call it "skeptical" if you want, but there's nothing "skeptical" about the strong assertion of there being no afterlife. Skeptical would be questioning it, not stating outright that you oppose it.
You're the one struggling to avoid what's right in front of you in the text itself, friend. It's ok to admit that Egypt was a land of diverse philosophies.
This is a straw man argument as none of pharaohs of the time were atheist, neither were the text. Kemet diverse? Yes very much so.
The text isn't atheist the same way it's not religious. It's a song listing different views on life. It's like an encyclopedia.
What does it matter what the pharaohs were? Just because Barack Obama is Christian, doesn't mean Jews and Muslims and atheists and Taoists don't exist in the US right now.
This is a classic selective Afrocentric double-standard. When someone talks about Greek philosophy or Abrahamic religions, yall are quick to say "all that stuff comes from Africa," "they took their culture and learning from the Egyptians." But when someone brings up Greek views on homosexuals or atheist philosophy, then it's "no, no, that's all European perversion."