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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 [[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>}}
{{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: