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The Christian writer Athenagoras of Athens (2nd century AD) declared conercerning Diagoras:
The Christian writer Athenagoras of Athens (2nd century AD) declared conercerning Diagoras:
{{Cquote|With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of [[Hercules]] to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there was no God at all.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/diagoras-of-melos Quotes About Diagoras Of Melos], Goodreads.com</ref>}}
{{Cquote|With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the [[Eleusinian mysteries|mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of [[Hercules]] to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there was no God at all.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/diagoras-of-melos Quotes About Diagoras Of Melos], Goodreads.com</ref>}}
J.M. Robertson in his work ''A Short History of Freethought: Ancient and Modern'' wrote:
J.M. Robertson in his work ''A Short History of Freethought: Ancient and Modern'' wrote: