From: "Mittmann, Mike" <Mike_Mittmann_at_affymetrix.com>
>
> As a counter argument, I have this quote form a first century Roman:
>
> From the monument of Marcus Antonius Enculpus:
>
> Do not pass by this epitaph, wayfarer,
> but stop, listen and learn, then go.
> There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,
> No caretaker Aecus, no Cerberus dog.
> All we dead below
> have become bones and ashes, nothing more.
> I have spoken you true, go now, wayfarer,
> Lest even though dead I seem to you garrulous.
>
> So, maybe many people "knew" that gods existed, but at least one
> "knew" that they didn't.
I'm expressing no opinion on the larger question--but a 1st-century Roman, with all of Greek philosophy to draw on (e.g. much more of Aristotle than we ourselves have), hardly counts as a "primitive"!
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