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Someone once said that religion explains those mysteries that science has not yet shed light on. As a rule of thumb, most of us lump any pre-Roman Greeks together. The truth is, by the time of Socrates and Plato, worship of the gods among the educated was increasingly rare. It was generally the pastoral and uneducated classes that were clinging to the old faith. Why? Because the Greeks were exploring science and understanding why certain things were happening.

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