Welcome to Tuesday Trivia!

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this thread is for you ALL!

Come share the cool stuff you love about the past!

We do not allow posts based on personal or relatives' anecdotes. Brief and short answers are allowed but MUST be properly sourced to respectable literature. All other rules also apply—no bigotry, current events, and so forth.

For this round, let’s look at: Atheism! As the joke goes, an agnostic is an atheist who is afraid of commitment. This week, we're celebrating those who went the full distance and concluded there is no god(s) and this spin around the big blue marble is all we get. This is the thread to share famous atheists throughout history, the evolution of atheism as an idea, and the ways in which atheists throughout history created community absent the church.