Skepticism about Religion – Part 2: Caveats and Qualifications
DOES RELIGION HAVE A POSITIVE CORRELATION WITH HAPPINESS? There are many empirical studies that appear to show that religion has a positive correlation with happiness. However, there are a number of important caveats and qualifications that need to be taken into consideration here: 1. Viewed in geographic terms, religion has a NEGATIVE correlation with happiness. … Skepticism about Religion – Part 2: Caveats and Qualifications
A Case for Atheism: Skepticism about Religion – Part 1
II. There are good reasons to be SKEPTICAL about religion and religious beliefs. A. Religion is NOT the key to Happiness and Virtue. ============================== RELIGION AND HAPPINESS Religion or religious belief is often thought to be the key to happiness, and religion is often promoted as being the key to happiness. On the Christian website … A Case for Atheism: Skepticism about Religion – Part 1
A Case for Atheism: Outline and Introduction
OUTLINE I. Introduction II. There are good reasons to be SKEPTICAL about religion and religious beliefs. III. There is no good case for the belief that God exists (THEISM). IV. There are good reasons for rejecting the belief that God exists (ATHEISM). I. INTRODUCTION I am going to make a case for atheism. In order … A Case for Atheism: Outline and Introduction
A Simple and Obvious Explanation
Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: 7 Excerpts From the Grand Jury Report A nearly 900-page report investigating abuse in six dioceses over a period of 70 years documents more than 300 abusive priests. ============================= How can God allow priests and bishops to sexually abuse thousands of children for decades, and allow them to work at … A Simple and Obvious Explanation
I’ve Got One Less Prophet Without You
One way of arguing for atheism (in the strong sense of rejection of ALL gods) is to tell a religious believer that you accept just one less god than he/she does. Christians, for example, are unbelievers with respect to thousands of gods that others have worshiped. Christians do NOT believe in or worship any of the … I’ve Got One Less Prophet Without You
Kreeft’s Case for God – Part 23: Five Remaining Arguments
WHERE WE ARE AT I have previously argued that the last ten arguments in Peter Kreeft’s case in Chapter 3 of his Handbook of Christian Apologetics (hereafter: HCA) fail to provide us with a good reason to believe that God exists. I have argued that the first five arguments, which Kreeft appears to think are among … Kreeft’s Case for God – Part 23: Five Remaining Arguments
Problems With TASO – Part 2: My Favorite Objection
TASO The third inductive argument in Swinburne’s case for God is TASO (the Teleological Argument from Spatial Order): Teleological Argument from Spatial Order (e3) There exists a complex physical universe which is governed by simple natural laws, and in which the structure of the natural laws and of the initial conditions are such that they make the … Problems With TASO – Part 2: My Favorite Objection
A Problem for the Problem of Evil?
William Lane Craig once gave a talk entitled, “Top 10 Worst Objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument.” Along the same lines, maybe someday I should a talk entitled, “Top 10 Worst Objections to the Argument from Evil.” But, for now, I want to focus on just one of the top ten objections, the idea that … A Problem for the Problem of Evil?
Hinman’s ABEAN Argument – Part 2: Objections to (11) and (1)
I. The Conclusion of the ABEAN Argument is UNCLEAR. (ABEAN is an acronym for: “some Aspect of Being is Eternal And Necessary”, which is premise (4) of Hinman’s argument.) The first thing that I look at when analyzing an argument is the conclusion of the argument. Here is the conclusion of Hinman’s ABEAN argument: 11. … Hinman’s ABEAN Argument – Part 2: Objections to (11) and (1)
Geisler’s Five Ways – Part 18: The God of the Bible Exists?
After laying out his case for the existence of God in When Skeptics Ask (hereafter: WSA), Dr. Norman Geisler attempts to link the God that he thinks he has proven to exist with “the God of the Bible”: Is this the God of the Bible? At the burning bush, God told Moses his name and … Geisler’s Five Ways – Part 18: The God of the Bible Exists?