Where can I find examples of atheism or agnosticism in ancient cultures?

Question

in essays, research papers, stories, movies, etc. whatever =/

Answer 1

The word atheist is an ancient greek term first used by ancient pagan philosophers to refer to early Christians and Jews, because they denied the many gods of the Greek and Roman Pantheons as was not common practice. Although the term atheism came into popular use in 16th-century France, the ideas that would be recognized today as atheistic certainly existed before the advent of Classical antiquity, as the word atheist is actually applied to Socrates in Platos's Dialogue The Apology. Eastern philosophy has a long history of nontheistic belief, beginning in the 6th century BC with the rise of Jainism, Buddhism, and certain sects of Hinduism in India, and of Taoism in China.

Western atheism has its roots in ancient Greek philosophy, but did not emerge as a distinct world-view until the late Enlightenment. The 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher Diagoras is known as the "first atheist", and strongly criticized religion and mysticism. Epicurus was an early philosopher to dispute many religious beliefs, including the existence of an afterlife or a personal deity.

Answer 2

I've never seen either.

Ancient people lived close to the earth and recognized the Spirit in everything. They named Spirit and its aspects. I'm sure there was agnosticism - technically we're all agnostic, whether we admit it or not. But atheism? Doubtful, or at least pretty rare.

Answer 3

its Reilly hard because christens and other Major religions killed and d them right up until the late 1800's

Answer 4

Actually, uh, there are references in the Bible. And even in Non-cononical scriptures.

Answer 5

The first attitude to clarify for itself exactly and its children is on the inexistence of perpetual life. The life is a phenomenon already extensively studied and the general conclusion of the scientific community are that the death does not exist souls after nor life. Souls is ghosts and science never analyzed no ghost simply because this does not exist exactly, is legends originated for the primitive men that nothing lightning, rays and thunders in skies understood and saw during storms and said between them to be manifestations of “souls of gods” in air and was as soon as this legend started. In Brazil the indians called Tupã the God the Thunders, other religions that never turn Brazil called Thor the God the thunder mythology Scandinavian making its rays with its Mjolnir hammer. Thor is considered the son of Odin, the Supreme God of Asgard, and Jord (Fjorgyn) the Goddess of Midgard (the Land). Pure imagination: Thor (nórtico archaic: Þórr, archaic English: Þunor, high archaic German: Donar) is a god of red hair and beard, representing the force of the recognized nature for its manifestation the thunder!

Remember :Not exist “souls”, “gods”, “supernatural powers”, "God”, “angels”, “demons”, “Devil”, “fairies”, “gnomos”, “paradise”, “hell” everything related to these ideas, nothing of this is real is alone legends of the fertile imagination primitive human being, everything this is pure illusion, fancy, imagination of the minds that had been doutrinadas to believe. If they existed to be able supernatural, these powers would be used as weapons in the wars, had never been because such “powers” had never existed. If these powers existed would not exist the illnesses, the medicine would use them to cure the patients. Who uses faith in the medicine is called quack. Who recognizes these truths never more will be haunted from fear ghosts, from fear to be punished by “God”, will not have more fear of witchcrafts, nor of wizards will not have more fear nor of the “Devil”, nothing more goes to have “to be able” on you! You go to progress in the life because she has the certainty of that she does not have time to lose and if not to produce workmanships its life passes empty and you does not leave nothing here, goes to start to produce much more, more art, more science, more literature, because you she starts to have more responsibility with its proper life, knows that it is only e for being only passes if to take care of much more, does not go to leave to carry through its workmanships in the next life because she recognizes that life you only have this that is living now, and also do not go if to kill á toa, its auto-esteem goes up the maximum at last you wakes up for the reality. It remembers: The only form of you to reach the future is through its children who will transmit for the future generations its genes.” One multiplies! The only form of its thoughts to be gifts in the future is through its artistic, scientific or literary workmanships.” It creates them! Its life is one only, never existed nor never will exist somebody as you, uses to advantage the chance to be existing and living to leave good and beautiful workmanships here so that you it is remembered () because after its death, you nor it goes to know that it died, you goes disconnect completely and to follow it will be embedded or cremado but it does not go to attend its burial nor to feel the heat of the flames calcining its bones or to see the larvae of flies to eat its corpse. To have some religion it is necessary to have brain thinking about this, carniça brain does not think more nothing and ghosts do not exist. Death is the end. _A question to imagine, to assume, to exist perpetual life has origin in the proper psiquismo vain person and ambitious person of the human being. First it imagined a “God Perpetual” and later he wanted to imitate the “God” who he himself imagined and if to become perpetual also and if imagined possessing of a perpetual spirit, wanted to resemble the “God” who he himself created in its imagination! Another illusion is the case of an illusion producing.
* Whenever to look at for the Sky; it always remembers this: Souls does not exist!