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Not necessarily. There were definitely leaders of the movement, and there were definitely teachings that were passed on. I think it's less likely that they were passing beliefs on to their children or anything like that, but they didn't all come up with the same ideas on their own coincidentally. An inherent characteristic of movements is that there are leaders and followers.
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Then the leaders came up with their beliefs themselves, my point is, they weren't taught their beliefs by a two-thousand year old book that atheism was centered around.
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Do you think a greater or lower percentage of Christians believe that than did 100 years ago? Certainly society as a whole is rejecting that view more now. While those beliefs may never disappear, I'm confident that they will continue to slip to the margins.
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I'll believe it when I see it.