memecucker:

I’m reading this book about anti-religious thought during the era people call the “Classical Age” of Islamic scholarship and holy shit some of these people in the 9th century have such strongly worded polemics like basically calling all religion entirely idiotic. There isn’t too much detailed info about them with the exception of al-Razi because he was a titan when it came to discoveries in other fields like medicine (though most of his anti-religious texts are lost) and to an extent al-Rawandi though the text of his we have most intact is in the context of heavy quotation in a Sufi rebuttal but the descriptions are pretty interesting. Like one response to al-Rawandi has the author going “I realized at this point he wasn’t just attacking only our Mutazalite school but in general Islam and even all people of religion”

Like you didn’t see such forceful and explicit attacks on religion in European thought until the Enlightenment and even then it took until the 19th century for people to be as vehement especially when it came to the topic of God so like when people are like “anti-theism is Eurocentric” that’s just such an ironically Eurocentric view of the world