VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Edwin|DATE|1357758106|CONTENT|@ Stonyground &quot;I wonder if I could have been anything but an atheist, having been born into this modern age...&quot;

I have had many arguments with the religious and those on history forums as to whether people in the past were as religious/superstitious as is claimed, &quot;Anglo-Saxons saw spirits in and behind every rock and bush&quot; etc. The inheritability of traits is a reasonable proposition so I can think of an ancestor of mine in 500AD Ireland as being as great prevaricator and having doubts about belief as I have.

Of course evidence is difficult with ritual being seen everywhere by archaeologists but we can see evidence even in the Bible and Koran and certainly in Roman and Greek writings of large numbers of atheists. Shame that anthropologists were conditioned to see religion everywhere when they were reporing on &quot;untouched&quot; tribes so the evidence from ethnology is biased as well.

It will be interesting if the New or Processual archaeology will find potential atheist Celts etc.|EMAIL|aeduin@aol.com|IP-ADDRESS|92.6.74.244|MODERATIONFLAG|