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Originally Posted by Fibrosa
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Originally Posted by tspike
No, not yet (or at least any notable incidents like the Inquizition). Atheists were almost non-existent until fairly recently, though. Give them 500 more years and then we'll talk.
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This just flat-out isn't true.
Look up Socrates and what he got accused of. Please read the "Apology". |
So Socrates was accused of 'impiety'. If you'd read any of Plato's other dialogues, you'd know that Socrates was hardly an atheist. If there was any justice to the claim of the Athenian court that Socrates did not honor the traditional gods, it was that he tended more strongly towards monotheism than most of his contemporaries. And, moreover, it seems from the Apology that the proceedings of the court were motivated more from political reasons than anything else.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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