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Ideas for Herodotus, Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) and Epicurus

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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief

14527	If god answered prayers we would be destroyed, because we pray for others to suffer [Epicurus]
	Full Idea: If god acted in accordance with the prayers of men, all men would rather quickly be destroyed, since they constantly pray for many sufferings to befall each other.
	From: Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE])
	A reaction: [source Maximus the Abbott 'Gnom.' 14]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

1513	The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus]
	Full Idea: The Egyptians were the first to claim that the soul of a human being is immortal, and that each time the body dies the soul enters another creature just as it is being born.
	From: Herodotus (The Histories [c.435 BCE], 2.123.2)