\n"}I\u2019m reading this book about anti-religious thought during the era people call the \u201cClassical Age\u201d 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\u2019t 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 \u201cI realized at this point he wasn\u2019t just attacking only our Mutazalite school but in general Islam and even all people of religion\u201d
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\nLike you didn\u2019t 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 \u201canti-theism is Eurocentric\u201d that\u2019s just such an ironically Eurocentric view of the world