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.
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.