But atually devoted more than half of his life to religion! while setting the foundations of modern math, physics, astronomy and optics.
Why was he not an atheist considering that atheists have been with us from the beginning, always in miniscule numbers ?
Epicurus, Democritus, and Lucretius were ancient atheist writers.
(Epicurus put forward the theory of "materialism": The only things that exist are bodies and the space between them. Epicurus taught that the soul is also made of material objects, and so when the body dies the soul dies with it. There is no afterlife.)
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