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He was not against religion in and of itself, but against traditional religion which he saw as superstition for teaching that gods interfered with the world.

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Despite believing in gods, Lucretius, like Epicurus, felt that religion was born of fear and ignorance, and that understanding the natural world would free people of its shackles. A philosopher of the Epicurean school, Lucretius believed the world was composed solely of matter and void and that all phenomena could be understood as resulting from purely natural causes. In his work De Rerum Natura, the 1st century BCE Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus wrote: 'But 'tis that same religion oftener far / Hath bred the foul impieties of men'. However, there is still no scholarly consensus over what a religion is. Today, religion is broadly conceived as an abstraction which entails beliefs, doctrines and sacred places-even though the ancient and medieval cultures that produced religious texts, like the Bible or the Quran, did not have such conceptions or ideas in their languages, cultures, or histories. For example, in Asia, no one before the 19th century self-identified as a 'Hindu' or other similar identities. Religion as a modern Western concept developed from the 17th century onwards. Main articles: Definition of religion and ReligionД«efore the 17th century religion was conflated with every day life.

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