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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

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

2632	Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero]
	Full Idea: Speusippus, following his uncle Plato, held that all things were governed by some kind of animal force, and tried to eradicate from our minds any notion of the gods.
	From: report of Speussipus (thirty titles (lost) [c.367 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') I.33