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Philosophers and have spent much time considering God’s existence. These difficult questions endure because Christian philosophers and theologians have never been able to answer them to anyone’s satisfaction -- especially their own.  This is intrinsically difficult, since many of these questions boil down to a call for evidence, whereas religious belief is built upon faith, which exists independently (and in spite) of evidence.
  
*The Problem of Evil
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'''Again, do not argue with the clergyman. Our strategy is not one of confrontation; but of malicious cooperation.''' Victory will be determined by the length and fruitlessness of your conversations. Arguing will reveal yourself as a troublemaker, and you will be denied any further opportunity to consume their time, ending your journey. Besides, you can’t directly deconvert a priest; they’re [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost pot-committed]. Deconversion and burnout are processes of erosion. However, discussing these issues in front of others can aid in their deconversion processes.
*Omnipotence and omniscience arguments
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*[[Refutations_of_the_Arguments_for_the_Belief_in_God|The arguments for the belief in God]] are weak and unconvincing.
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Synopses of the most common arguments against the belief in God are provided below. This is not an exhaustive list, but it should be more than sufficient; most seminarians are not required to study [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics apologetics], and those who do often take a single 3-credit course. These challenging problems include:
*God as an unnecessary hypothesis.
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*Atheism explains disbelief better than theism
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*[[The Problem of Evil]].
*Unfalsifiability
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*[[Omnipotence and Omniscience Arguments]].
*The God of the Gaps
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*[[Refutations_of_the_Arguments_for_the_Belief_in_God|The arguments for the belief in God are weak and unconvincing]], since they tend to rely on ambiguous terms, false premises, and/or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies logical fallacies].
*Lack of evidence for creationism
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*[[There_is_no_Afterlife|There is no afterlife]].
*Archeology and the Bible
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**...and more specifically, [[Hell_does_not_Exist|Hell does not exist]].
*Cruel world argument
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*[[The_Bible_is_not_Credible|The Bible is not Credible]].
*Religious plurality (Aaron's Rod)
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*[[Creationism is False|Creationism is False]].
*Religion does a poor job of teaching how to life a good life
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*The problems posed by [[Religious_Pluralism|religious pluralism]].
*Neglecting life and the world
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*[[The_Clergy_are_not_Moral_Exemplars|The clergy ''are not'' moral exemplars]].
*Arguments against the existence of Heaven
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*Arguments against the existence of Hell
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*Maxwell’s Demon
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*There are other ways to overcome the fear of death (sense of purpose)
 

Latest revision as of 05:05, 3 March 2019

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Philosophers and have spent much time considering God’s existence. These difficult questions endure because Christian philosophers and theologians have never been able to answer them to anyone’s satisfaction -- especially their own. This is intrinsically difficult, since many of these questions boil down to a call for evidence, whereas religious belief is built upon faith, which exists independently (and in spite) of evidence.

Again, do not argue with the clergyman. Our strategy is not one of confrontation; but of malicious cooperation. Victory will be determined by the length and fruitlessness of your conversations. Arguing will reveal yourself as a troublemaker, and you will be denied any further opportunity to consume their time, ending your journey. Besides, you can’t directly deconvert a priest; they’re pot-committed. Deconversion and burnout are processes of erosion. However, discussing these issues in front of others can aid in their deconversion processes.

Synopses of the most common arguments against the belief in God are provided below. This is not an exhaustive list, but it should be more than sufficient; most seminarians are not required to study apologetics, and those who do often take a single 3-credit course. These challenging problems include: