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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest?
What a funny question. In 13 countries, atheism is punishable by death. Most religions view atheism as a sin punishable by a ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
After reading Scott Rowe's comment regarding Carl Sagan's book I thought of the following scenario which is at least plausible.
Imagine a time a long time ago. Before god's were thought of.
Jack is a ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
You refer to self-interest. I fail to see that this is pertinent. Philosophers pursue truth, not self-interest. For the avoidance of doubt, I refer to the burden of proof.
Atheism requires no argument....
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According to bishop Berkeley how does trinitarian doctrine "God the Son (Jesus Christ)" apply to his subjective idealism?
See Kenneth L. Pearce's Berkeley’s Philosophy of Religion, Ch.26 of Richard Brook & Bertil Belfrage (editors), The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley (2017), page 476, with reference to Alciphron, ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
The contest between various mythologies, between the people who believe in one god vs those who believe in 2 or 3 gods or in zero gods, is the lowest possible level of philosophy. It's boring to death....
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
I can share my own experience that as a child I was told stories about many beings that were clearly different from real people: guardian angels, the Devil, Father Christmas, the tooth fairy, God, ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
Your question has a confusing term in it which may lead to the answers not satisfying your intent -- and that is "positive". The implication to the word is that you are looking for ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
There aren't self-serving arguments for atheism (either*).
Fear of hell: This is a (bad) argument for Christianity, i.e. you're going to hell so you need to accept that Jesus died for your sins (...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
Atheism isnt an argument. It's not a religious belief. It just means you dont believe that a theistic god exists... but it comes with an "until further notice". "Prove me wrong."
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
In conclusion, being an atheist has many benefits, including freedom of thought and belief, rational thinking, personal responsibility, tolerance and acceptance, focus on the present, community, and ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
Alex O'Connor makes a positive case for atheism by putting forth 3 arguments:
The argument from Divine Hiddenness or Nonresistant Nonbelief
The argument from Demographics of Theism
The problem of ...
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Are there any positive arguments for atheism not rooted in self interest
Note that atheism = a-theism is defined as a position which denies
the existence of a god. Hence each argument against god is an
argument for atheism. Your remark
the atheist generally provides ...
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If God created everything Who created GOD
Since you're a Christian you might want to ask on the Christianity stack exchange. Philosophically though there are several arguments that come to my mind, and this is non-exhaustive of course. This ...
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Is my analysis of Dawkins' fallacies correct?
It is not necessary for Dawkins to argue against God. If someone argues for the existence of God, or any particular god or belief, it is for that person to prove this. If, however, they merely assert ...
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What does mean “realitas objectiva” in scholastic ontology?
Heidegger describes an inversion of meaning of realitas objectiva from Descartes and Scholasticism to Kant and modernism (depending on your subscription), in The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, ...
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Can an immaterial being not be conscious?
Why do you suppose that all immaterial beings with causal powers are conscious? Anyway, let's suppose that's the case.
To act in the physical plane, physical infrastructure (for example a body) is ...
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Is science possible in a world where a god acts?
Science is only possible in a world where GOD acts -- there simply is no other source of order to the laws of physics.
However, since YHVH is ancient, these acts occur rarely. So this allows science ...
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In what way can theism and science co-exist?
Weren't something like 99% of all scientists historically religious and/or believers?
And if science was in actual fact produced by religious folks, how could one argue that religion is contradictory ...
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In what way can theism and science co-exist?
In the sense that they cannot agree on a reasonable conception of the universe, they cannot. As for people who say they are scientists who believe in God, I think that this is a psychological question....
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If God is omnipotent, can he make self-contradictory objects?
Yes. An omnipotent being can choose what logic applies to this world, and can make a world which is self-contradictory if it chooses.
A key issue you should research if you want to think this thru ...
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If God is omnipotent, can he make self-contradictory objects?
That's up to you. God is a product of your imagination and omnipotence is a product of your imagination, so you are free to imagine whatever you wish. Some people in your shoes consider omnipotent to ...
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If the universe has a beginning does that prove God exists?
No. If the universe had a beginning that does not prove that God exists. No. Hawking did not prove that God exists. It has to be considered that the universe was its own cause. Panpsychism proposes ...
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
I think the YouTube video is a joke, even if the creator of the vid doesn't realize it yet.
I believe in the existence of God and I think this belief is reasonably well-justified epistemologically.
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
In one of the systems theories, cybernetics (or a more simplified version of the distributed network theory), we cannot say that micro system dynamics are absolutely self-governing. There is a ...
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
Hence, god exists. Reply! ~ Leonhard Euler (mathematician)
You can visit Euler's Wikipedia page here. A very interesting man.
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
1=1, always.
That's the proof of God's existence. God is that, which keeps things meaningfull.
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Can you mathematically prove the existence of God?
The argument featured in Redeemed Zoomer’s video boils down to “Math is complex, therefore God exists.” The problem here lies in the assumption that complexity entails design.
For his argument to be ...
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Is the design answer to fine-tuning sufficiently complete?
The fine-tuning argument is not only incomplete, it's fundamentally flawed by way of fallaciously reifing a theoretical, possible-world semantics disguised as a series of claims about a 'real' ...
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Is the design answer to fine-tuning sufficiently complete?
The main body of this question is a restatement of the omnipotence paradox in terms of pre-existing principles instead of powers. (See in particular Aquinas' formulation - this question has been being ...
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Is the design answer to fine-tuning sufficiently complete?
Any attempt to explain cosmic life by intelligent design faces the following problem:
It first attempts to “explain” a certain cosmological fact by a deus ex
machina, but then lacks any cause for the ...
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Is the design answer to fine-tuning sufficiently complete?
The constants you are referring to, are trade-offs for matching between how reality appears to us (facts) and our theories regarding this appearance (models).
Whether there exists a design, or our ...
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Is the design answer to fine-tuning sufficiently complete?
This is an interesting question that I feel was not addressed adequately in the comments and has been on my mind as well.
In summary, I don’t think the design explanation gets rid of the issue at all. ...
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Are there any publications that attempt to give a formal ontological definition of the Christian Trinity?
Does this do it for you, sir/madam (both?)?
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Are there any publications that attempt to give a formal ontological definition of the Christian Trinity?
An old attempt, and relatively perspicuous at that, comes from Aquinas:
For St Thomas, the relations which distinguish the divine persons constitute these persons. Relation thus becomes the basis of ...
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Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions
Word God must be understood before denying or accepting its existence.
There is a Christian God , Islamic God , Hindu God , God of thunder and lightning, God of Creation , God of preservation, God of ...
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Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions
I am afraid that you are playing a trivial word game based on the ambiguities in the words faith and atheist.
An unwillingness to have faith in x is not the same as having faith in not x. There are ...
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Asserting that Atheism and Theism are both faith based positions
Yes. It would be incorrect. The burden of proof is on the proposer. See Russell's Teapot. Moreover, atheism is not a religion. It is simply an absence of belief. It is a rational position.
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