2007-02-10 10:05:01 · 15 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When Adam took the forbidden fruit, he was being a "practicing atheist" in the s3ense that he was acting as if God were not there. Many religious people are like that today: practicing atheists.
2007-02-10 10:08:47 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well let's use logic to deduce the answer.
Since an Atheist is one that says there is no God with as much conviction and certainty as religion does in its claim that there is a God.
Neither of which can offer proof to support there claims. The lack of evidance is not evidance. That type of logic would be akin to a police officer saying I have no proof that you commited this crime so that means you must be guilty.
So in order for someone to reject the idea of a God or Gods there must first be an idea of a God or Gods that people believe in.
Which means logic dictates that religion had to come first. However that type of religion history proves is not a monotheism but a polytheism. Not the belief in one God but in multiple Gods.
2007-02-10 10:14:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the academic sense atheists. For before religion, there was no need to believe in a God. Polytheistic religions came before monotheistic religions, and it went on from there.
2007-02-10 10:10:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you believe. It could be either way. Ask a christian, then ask an atheist or someone from any other religion and you will get different answers.
2007-02-10 10:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by odd duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in the early days of man, dumb humans thought there must be some God or Gods controlling the weather, being angry, fighting throwing lightening and pounding thunder.
wahla! the birth of religion
2007-02-10 10:17:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since religion is a man-made concept, it stands to reason that there were no gods until someone made them up to explain odd things long ago.
2007-02-10 10:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no need for negation in any case until an affermative claim is made. Since religion came before Theism, it must have come well before Atheism.
2007-02-10 10:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Atheism came first, humans and I didn't even realise the existence of one another until there were too many of them to wipe out in a flood.
Praise me, amen.
2007-02-10 10:11:15 · answer #8 · answered by RH (a.k.a. God) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism could not exist without religion to inspire it.
2007-02-10 10:11:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Athiest
2007-02-10 10:10:44 · answer #10 · answered by debbieschwencke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋