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The greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. this custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

-Benjamin Disraeli

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The Greeks Adored Their Gods By The

Benjamin Disraeli

The greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. this custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

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Rincewind shivered. he was not, of course, an atheist; on the disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. on the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get. but usually he didn't bother the gods, and he hoped the gods wouldn't bother him. life was quite complicated enough.

The romans called the christians atheists. why? well, the christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn't a real god. they didn't believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or olympian gods. they had a peculiar, different kind of god. so it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. and that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn't believe exactly as i do prevails in our own time.

When did atheists become so evangelical? i mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? that's certainly what i do. whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if i'm convinced it's fiction, i simply put it out of my mind. not the atheists. they are obsessed with faith and religious practice. their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. no longer content to simply dismiss god and those who follow in him, the new atheists have created a cult of unbelief.

Where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

The gods have fled, i know. my sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. i do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. if anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. i believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

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