Skepticism about Religion – Part 4: Religion and Virtue
========================= II. There are good reasons to be SKEPTICAL about religion and religious beliefs. A. Religion is NOT the key to Happiness and Virtue. 1. Religion is NOT the key to Happiness. 2. Religion is NOT the key to Virtue. ======================== An Obvious Failure of Religion to Promote Virtue Many Catholic priests have sexually abused … Skepticism about Religion – Part 4: Religion and Virtue
Skepticism about Religion – Part 3: More Caveats and Qualifications
========================= II. There are good reasons to be SKEPTICAL about religion and religious beliefs. A. Religion is NOT the key to Happiness and Virtue. 1. Religion is NOT the key to Happiness. 2. Religion is NOT the key to Virtue. ======================== MORE CAVEATS & QUALIFICATIONS ABOUT THE CORRELATION BETWEEN RELIGION & HAPPINESS 5. When a … Skepticism about Religion – Part 3: More Caveats and Qualifications
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
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: Summary of My Critique – Part 3
In Part 23 I begin to analyze and evaluate the five remaining arguments in Kreeft’s case for God. FIVE REMAINING ARGUMENTS Although I have already shown that Kreeft’s cumulative case for God is a complete failure, I would still like to make a few comments and objections concerning the remaining five arguments: I quickly toss … Kreeft’s Case for God: Summary of My Critique – Part 3
Kreeft’s Case for God: Summary of My Critique – Part 2
In Part 15 I begin to analyze Argument #4 of Kreeft’s case: 4. The Argument from Degrees of Perfection In Argument #4, Kreeft argues for the existence of an “absolutely perfect being”. He does strongly hint at the single most important premise of this argument: This absolutely perfect being…is God. (HCA, p.55) The most important premise of this argument is best stated as … Kreeft’s Case for God: Summary of My Critique – Part 2
Kreeft’s Case for God: Summary of My Critique – Part 1
DOES GOD EXIST? One way to approach this question is to critically examine some cases for the existence of God. I am especially interested in cases for God made by Christian philosophers in the late 20th century or the early 21st century. One such case was made by Peter Kreeft: Twenty Arguments for the Existence … Kreeft’s Case for God: Summary of My Critique – Part 1
Kreeft’s Case for God – Part #31: Evaluation of Phase 2 Continued
WHERE WE ARE AT In Phase 2 of Argument #6, the Kalam Cosmological Argument, Peter Kreeft aims to establish two claims: 4. The cause of the coming into being of the universe is eternal. 5. The cause of the coming into being of the universe was a person. In Part 30, I argued that Kreeft’s … Kreeft’s Case for God – Part #31: Evaluation of Phase 2 Continued