@@lawrence9506 I guess one doesn't need the word "nihilist" and "nihilism" to be a nihilist. When David Hume came to the aware conclusion that "there is no God" I would guess that existencial nihilism wasn't far away. The "If God doesn't exist, then..." may have opened up for thoughts in that direction. Or it may be that pure nihilism is a concept which for us now seems so common, but that before was harder to get in its purest form.