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You also have to situate DeWitt's book in its time and place--North America during the early years of the Cold War. In fact, Joseph McCarthy was censured by the Senate the same year DeWitt published. I presume his endless perceived connections between Christianity and Epicureanism were an attempt to get his Christian contemporaries to take another look at Epicurus. It is nevertheless rather overbearing! Regarding Epicureanism as a missionary philosophy, there are a number of issues at play. Sinc…