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or materialists have always been there in every society

even though majority of human cultures and civilizations

have had some kind of religion.

But there's always been a small group

that are just materialists, or nealists.

This world is all there is life there is no afterlife,

there's no God, et cetera, et cetera.

So there were people like that also in Makkah.

And even though they're very small minority

and they don't represent any authority, they're loud enough

and they're important enough that the Quran sometimes

even records their arguments.

And this is perhaps a wisdom in the Quran

that through time as Islam goes all over the world,

there will be people that will subscribe

to that religion also, atheism.

And so maybe their world view from back then

from 1400 years ago, maybe that's old atheism.

And maybe new atheists have some really epic new ideas

that are like so much more advanced and sophisticated

that their akhidah has much stronger foundations now, right?

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