The previous post reminded me of this video.
I am currently listening to aÂ Great CoursesÂ on Ancient-Greek thought.
“Zeus does not exist”
Socrates had his moments of atheism.Â He argued that Zeus could not be omnipotent, because heÂ required clouds to make thunder and lightning, whereas an omnipotent deity could make lighning “bolt from the blue” or “bolt from a clear blue sky” to refer to the adage.
Interestingly, Xenephon, Plato and Aristophanes are contemporaries or near-contemporaries who attest to there being a Socrates, which is more than what we can say for Jesus.Â All attestations to Jesus are either anonymous – as in the Gospels – referring to a mythical being – as in most of Saint Paul’s writing; pseudo-epigraphic – as in the forged writings of Saint Paul – or forged by Eusebius – as in Flavius Josephus’Â Testimonium Flavianum.