Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Anaxarchus, Democritus and Phil Dowe

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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1535	Democritus said people imagined gods as the source of what awed or frightened them [Democritus, by Sext.Empiricus]
	Full Idea: Democritus thought that people imagined gods as responsible for the frightening and awesome things that happen in this world.
	From: report of Democritus (fragments/reports [c.431 BCE], A075) by Sextus Empiricus - Against the Professors (six books) 9.24