Re: Four Kinds of Atheists.
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That doesn't explain the success of early godless cultures.
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"early" was partly as a refutation of DS's #4
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Those who look at the things that science has only recently explained.
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The ability to discard the Gap reason for believing in a xtrian type Alpha god was available much earlier ( I simply said earlier, not ancient, but that may well apply too), but essentially not going to happen in a Zeus or Thor based culture.
Whether atheist Buddhism or even Jainism type religions where there isn't a Alpha creator qod that runs around causing things. Some variations of these are older than xtrianity.
Being able to break from 'god does it' thinking is more culture based than technology based. Always has been.
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