A photo of implicit atheism and explicit atheism as compared to implicit theism and explicit theism in the Beg-Thims dialogue (2015). |
“Just as man and woman attract one another, so oxygen attracts hydrogen, and, in loving union with it, forms water, that mighty omnipresent element, without which no life nor thought would be possible.”— Ludwig Buchner (c.1855); cited by Henry Finck (1887) as an example of "gross materialism"
“Just as there is no god involved when oxygen reacts with hydrogen, so to is there no god involved when man reacts with woman.”— Libb Thims (2014), mental synopsis personal note of the Goethe 1809 point on the atheism timeline; an atheism explicit variant of the c.1855 Ludwig Buchner quote: "Just as man and woman attract one another, so oxygen attracts hydrogen", Sep 10; cited (Ѻ) by Inderjit Singh (2015) as favorite philosophical quote
“The first atheist of whom we know is one Diagoras, who lived in the late fifth century BCE. It is typical that nothing of this works aside from random fragments survives and that he was forced to flee Athens because he declared that there were no gods. Even in the ages preceding Christianity, the enunciation of explicit atheistic, or even agnostic, views carried with it the threat of both legal punishment and social obloquy.”— Sunand Joshi (2014), The Original Atheists [2]
“I was an ‘implicit atheist’ prior to 2014 (see: Beg-Thims dialogue) and an ‘explicit atheist’ thereafter.”— Libb Thims (2017), mental note, Aug 26