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Comment author: Document 16 February 2010 10:04:42PM 0 points [-]

I remember a post on this site where someone wondered whether a medieval atheist could really confront the certainty of death that existed back then, with no waffling or reaching for false hopes. Or something vaguely along those lines. Am I remembering accurately, and if so, can someone link it?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 16 February 2010 10:24:43PM 3 points [-]

http://yudkowsky.net/other/yehuda ?

What would it be like to be a rational atheist in the fifteenth century, and know beyond all hope of rescue that everyone you loved would be annihilated, one after another as you watched, unless you yourself died first? That is still the fate of humans today; the ongoing horror has not changed, for all that we have hope.

Comment author: Document 17 February 2010 01:30:02AM *  0 points [-]

I can't figure out if I read it there or here first, but that looks like the quote; thanks.

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