> But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or > were able to draw with their hands and do the work > that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the > gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they > would make their bodies such as they each had > themselves.
His dates are roughly 570–480 BCE. Many of the Greek philosophers in the sixth through fourth centuries questioned the myths of the gods, but I get the sense that they all (even Xenophanes) believed in gods or a god of some sort -- they didn't argue against the existence of divine being(s) in general.
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Date: 2009-01-26 02:11 pm (UTC)> But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or
> were able to draw with their hands and do the work
> that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the
> gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they
> would make their bodies such as they each had
> themselves.
His dates are roughly 570–480 BCE. Many of the Greek philosophers in the sixth through fourth centuries questioned the myths of the gods, but I get the sense that they all (even Xenophanes) believed in gods or a god of some sort -- they didn't argue against the existence of divine being(s) in general.