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.
God as in the omniscient prime mover was a philosopical god in contrast to the Olympians and chthonic deities (Not to be confused with the Cthonian deities) who were sustained by the temples for commoners.
I can’t speak to Epicurus, but Socrates’ charges of impeity and corrupting the youth with perverse ideas were at least partly to do with showing the philosophical theist positions that were antithetical to devotion to the common ministries.
It’s much the way only scientists and deep academics in the 20th century were openly atheist. The rest of us skeptics were members of liberal ministries, and may not have gone to church much.
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.
Monotheistic religions did exist and were well known to them though
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.
Oh no better stop using this meme then!
God as in the omniscient prime mover was a philosopical god in contrast to the Olympians and chthonic deities (Not to be confused with the Cthonian deities) who were sustained by the temples for commoners.
I can’t speak to Epicurus, but Socrates’ charges of impeity and corrupting the youth with perverse ideas were at least partly to do with showing the philosophical theist positions that were antithetical to devotion to the common ministries.
It’s much the way only scientists and deep academics in the 20th century were openly atheist. The rest of us skeptics were members of liberal ministries, and may not have gone to church much.