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It looks like the German Wikipedia has some good sources for this (in German, naturally). I also found this book on Google Books, but I don't have the time to delve into the subject at the moment. Will try to come back and expand it later. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 12:37, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am reading a German book on the subject at the moment (Well, German there are non-translated quotes in French, English, Italian, Latin (whole pages) and ancient Greek ;-) ). I don't totally agree with the author, Schröder. I agree more with the Wikipedia article which handles about possible atheists, who weren't out of the closet. The penalty for atheism was death, often after some good torture. So, it is not strange that the author of Theophrastus revivivus remained anonymous and that many known authors could have been atheists, but didn't want to get tortured, die, or lose a career.

Atheism used to be a braoder term than it is now. Back in the old days, orthodox calinists regarded all roman-catholics, luthereans, jews, muslims and nun-believers as atheists, because they didn't believe in god. Orthodox roman-catholics thought of all calvinists....Daanschr (talk) 13:44, 10 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]