2006-10-12 20:36:20 · 15 answers · asked by bernardmailman 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Probably Friedrich Nietzsche, but he died insane...shame...
Nietzsche: "God is dead!"
God: "Nietzsche is dead!!"
2006-10-13 02:38:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would have to be Harvey Teasdale III. When he'd walk down the street, strangers were drawn to him by his personal magnetism. Even priests could not resist him since his early childhood. Macho men turned gay when they saw him. Women tore off their clothes and undulated passionately before him. It all ended abruptly when someone asked him if he was God's gift to women and he answered, "I don't believe in God." There was a shocked silence. People ran out of the building and disappeared. Old ladies and little children reprimended him wherever he went. He gained 200 pounds and his penis disappeared into folds of flesh that drooped down from his belly. His popularity had faded to nothing. When he died, his gravestone was inscribed "I should have kept my mouth shut."
For more information, see The Most Popular Atheist Ever in the Guiness Book of World Records.
2006-10-13 04:01:21 · answer #2 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first ever atheist recorded in the Rigveda is Laukya Brihaspati who propounded the atheistic or materialistic philosophy (Rigveda 10.72.2.), laid the foundation of Charvaka Philosophy in India, though the original texts of Charvaka Philosophy is not available but the impact of this philosophy of Laukya Brihaspati was so much that every system of Indian Philosophy criticised it. Even in this Materialist philosophy or Atheism was criticised by Rishi Gritsamada in the Rigveda.(Rigveda.2.23.16).
2006-10-13 05:19:52 · answer #3 · answered by Virgo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Omar Khayyam too was believed to be a sort of atheist... but not very clear. There was no doubt of his popularity...
He was requested not to drink wine in a place of worship, and he replied in a couplet (famous even now)... "Either allow me to drink here, or show me a place where Almighty is not there" !
In ancient days, even non-acceptance of religious prescriptions were regarded as atheism !
2006-10-13 04:07:31 · answer #4 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd have to guess chairman mao of communist china in the 1900s, what with the reeducation camps, propoganda, and china having the largest population. Perhaps even some of the 50+ million people whose deaths he caused liked him before dying.
2006-10-13 03:53:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd think that would be C.S. Lewis the writer.
Funny thing is that he started out as an atheist, and ended up belieiving so much in Christianity that he wrote and hid religious meanings in his novels.
2006-10-13 03:47:50 · answer #6 · answered by Gater 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None and non-existence.
Just primitive living human kind at loss with our creator's universal gifts of life vital for their own suvival lost and stranded on planet earth.
2006-10-13 03:58:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either Bertrand Russell, or Richard Dawkins, I think.
2006-10-13 03:39:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ram Gopal Varma.,celebrating his atheism.
2006-10-13 04:03:00 · answer #9 · answered by chris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Friedrich Nietzsche really rocked the world with his proud statement that "God is Dead." But I guess that's not quite atheism, though. Is it?
2006-10-13 03:50:49 · answer #10 · answered by mjdoubled 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say Karl Marx. He turned more people into atheists than anybody else.
2006-10-13 03:41:54 · answer #11 · answered by miniaras 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋