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the main point of epicurus's claim regarding gods and eveil is that maybe there are gods maybe there aren't but if there are gods, they aren't terribly concerned with what happens here and certainly don't devise punishments in the afterlife for anyone, so functionally we're on our own. and don't worry so much about the afterlife.
you could just as easily say that epicurus is arguing for transcendent gods as none. if you want to keep the anachronism follies going, you could just as easily say that epicurus is a nominalist as an atheist (anachronism because, as filtherton said more or less, the arguments are directed at theists in the judeo-xtian sense--athens, 2nd century bc i think, maybe 3rd, can't remember)
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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