Gods Have No Attributes Inconsistent With Blessedness and Incorruptibility

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    2. Key Citations - Nothing Is Supernatural - No Gods Over Nature

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      • October 4, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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    2. About This Subforum - Everyone Please Read! 3

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    2. Article: "Significance of Worship and Prayer among the Epicureans" by George Depue Hadzsits 2

      • Susan Hill
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    2. Applied Theology 5

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      • November 3, 2020 at 7:33 AM
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    2. Introductory Video on Epicurean Gods and the Three Responses 13

      • Susan Hill
      • October 29, 2020 at 7:07 AM
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      October 29, 2020 at 10:11 PM

    2. Other Short Fragments and Testimonia

      • Susan Hill
      • October 28, 2020 at 3:15 PM
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    2. From Philodemus 4

      • Susan Hill
      • October 28, 2020 at 2:09 PM
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    2. From Cicero 1

      • Susan Hill
      • October 28, 2020 at 10:28 AM
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    2. From the Pen of the Master: Epicurus 1

      • Susan Hill
      • October 28, 2020 at 10:00 AM
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      October 28, 2020 at 10:13 AM

    2. Reverence and Awe In Epicurean Philosophy 164

      • Susan Hill
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    4. Don

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    2. Epicureanism as the spiritual essence or 'religion' of an entire community 90

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    2. Which (Epicurean) God ...? 4

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    2. On the nature of a god 4

      • Michael
      • November 2, 2019 at 10:47 AM
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      November 4, 2019 at 10:28 AM

    2. Hesiod’s Theogony 1

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      • January 12, 2019 at 8:05 AM
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    2. Are Epicurean Gods Compatible with Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious and Archetypes? 7

      • Kalosyni
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    2. Article On Contemplation on the Gods 7

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    2. For Gods There Are 6

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

      • Joshua
      • August 25, 2019 at 2:30 PM
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    2. Satisfying the Conditions of an Epicurean "god" 6

      • Joshua
      • August 15, 2019 at 8:21 PM
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      August 16, 2019 at 1:15 PM

    2. On Deism, and Getting it Wrong 1

      • Joshua
      • August 15, 2019 at 7:57 PM
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    2. Reasonings about Philodemus’ On Piety

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    2. Article: The Ethical Implications of Epicurus' Theology by Stefano Mecci 15

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    2. Epicurean gods and Aristotelian contemplation 7

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    2. Thoughts on Reverence, Awe, and Epicurean Piety 10

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      • October 28, 2020 at 9:03 PM
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    2. Notes on "Epicurus and His Gods" by A.J. Festugiere 4

      • Godfrey
      • October 23, 2020 at 6:49 PM
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    2. "The Polytheism of the Epicureans" by Paul T. M. Jackson 13

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    2. Epicurus, gods and God 57

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      • October 13, 2019 at 4:36 PM
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    2. Hidden Brain podcast: Suggested Episodes on the Gods & Religion 7

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    2. The Real Impact of Epicurus saying the celestial bodies weren't gods! 1

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    2. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 215 22

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