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Plutarch, On Superstition, 167e

nan and they have such images fashioned, and dress them up, and worship them. But they hold in contempt philosophers and statesmen, who try to prove that the majesty of God is associated with goodness, magnanimity, kindliness, and solicitude. So the atheists have more than enough of indifference and distrust of the Beings who can help them, whereas the superstitious experience equal agitation and fear towards the things that can help them. Or, in fine, atheism is an indifferent feeling toward the Deity, which has no notion of the good, and superstition is a multitude of differing feelings with an underlying notion that the good is evil. For the superstitious fear the gods, and flee to the gods for help; they flatter them and assail them with abuse, pray to them and blame them.

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atheism,atheists	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304, 308
christian	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
cult	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
epicurus,epicurean	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304
experience	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
games,olympic	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304
identify,identifying	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
jerusalem	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
jewish,jews	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
judaeo-christian	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
kosmopolites,lamprias catalogue	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304
kosmopolites,religious	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
pistis	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
religion	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304, 308
rome,city	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
superstition	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304, 308
tacitus	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 308
theology'	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022) 304