> Subject: Re: Are Gloranthans Human?
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> >>>Take the rain god. Water falls out of the sky; there it is, doing it
right now.
> >>>What more proof of the existence of a rain god could you possibly need?
> >>>What other conceivable explanation could there be for rain falling out
> >>>of the sky? Every time it rains you have your
> >>>cast-iron-couldn't-possibly-be-doubted proof that there's a rain god.
> >>>Not believing in the rain god would be like not believing in gravity.
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.
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