I was reading today, and came across a line that contended that the concept that nothing exists past our senses, the basis of atheism, is also from Aristotle. On that, he disagreed with 'Plato's other students' (and likely Socrates as a consequence) who contended that our senses act as filters to give us the 'illusion of reality.'
Both poles of religion are embracing the same person's thoughts, and challenging the thoughts that eminated from him in contradiction to those they are told to believe!
Is that not wild?!
It's at the bottom of page one.
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