17.Holbach, who pushed deism's religious skepticism further, advocated atheism and developed a nonreligious " system of nature" that was thoroughly materialistic.
19.Since atheism was considered a capital offense by the Greeks, Greek thinkers beginning with Thales of Miletus, who lived circa 585 BCE, carefully avoided any outright rejection of religious belief.
20.It was known as pastafarians as sort of an analogy to atheism that was something silly and fun, it's a basically a flying bowl of spaghetti with eyes and meatballs.