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2. About This Subforum - Everyone Please Read! 3
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2. Key Citations - Nothing Is Supernatural - No Gods Over Nature 1
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2. Reasonings about Philodemus’ On Piety
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2. A Discussion of Epicurean Concepts of Divinity
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2. The Argument In Favor of a Supernatural God Based On Alleged Issues With Concept of Infinity
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2. A Great Summary With References Of The Epicurean Affirmation Of The Existence of "Gods" 1
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2. The Epicurean Gods As A Standard To Which To Aspire 6
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2. Are The Gods Part of Orienting Our Minds Toward What Is Important? 1
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2. Realism matters 4
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2. Notes On Non-Religious-Based Objections To Darwin And Their Relation to "Evolution" Sections of Lucretius 3
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2. Reverence and Awe In Epicurean Philosophy 164
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2. From Cicero 1
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2. Other Short Fragments and Testimonia
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2. Introductory Video on Epicurean Gods and the Three Responses 13
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2. Applied Theology 5
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2. Declaration Of Rights Of Epicureans To Freedom of Religion - Cassius' Declaration of August 20, 2021 9
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2. Knowledge of the Gods as "Manifest" 22
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2. The Real Impact of Epicurus saying the celestial bodies weren't gods! 1
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2. Was Epicurus Influenced by Xenophanes? 2
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2. An Exchange involving the Ontological Argument For The Existence of a Supernatural God
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2. A Question About Epicurean Gods
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2. Hesiod’s Theogony 1
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2. Satisfying the Conditions of an Epicurean "god" 6
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2. Under the Sliding Signs of Heaven-Lucretius' Poetic Echoes 2
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2. On the nature of a god 4
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2. "The Polytheism of the Epicureans" by Paul T. M. Jackson 13
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2. Notes on "Epicurus and His Gods" by A.J. Festugiere 4
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2. From the Pen of the Master: Epicurus 1
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2. From Philodemus 4
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2. Atheopaganism Commentary 5
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The Real Impact of Epicurus saying the celestial bodies weren't gods! 1

Was Epicurus Influenced by Xenophanes? 2

Hesiod’s Theogony 1

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Under the Sliding Signs of Heaven-Lucretius' Poetic Echoes 2

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