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Ancient wisdom
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23770280
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this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2025
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It's a fake quote. Epicurus lived in a polytheistic society. He didn't say these things about one god, he said it about all the gods. This quote here is a localisation by Hume which erases Epicurus' paganism for a Christian audience.
Your atheist meme is still pushing Christian biases.
Which is funny because as far as I know none of the pagan gods are presented as omnipotent or omnibenevolent. Works good applied on the Christian god though
Yeah, Epicurus wasn't making any kind of huge atheistic point. He was just exploring the Greeks' relationship to their religion. Hume is the one who co-opted and misquoted him to serve an anti-christianity agenda that didn't even exist when Epicurus lived.