A former 40 year Atheist analyzes Atheism, without resorting to theism, deism, or fantasy.
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If You Don't Value Truth, Then What DO You Value?
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If we say that the sane can be coaxed and persuaded to rationality, and we say that rationality presupposes logic, then what can we say of those who actively reject logic?
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Atheists have an obligation to give reasons in the form of logic and evidence for rejecting Theist theories.
Sunday, November 23, 2014
The Problem of Evil, Revisited
1. Evil exists.
2. Therefore, God doesn't exist.
3. And, given no God:
4. Therefore evil doesn't exist.
5. Assertion 1 contradicts conclusion 4.
6. Therefore contradictions do not exist.
7. Therefore Truth does not exist.
8. Therefore Atheism is True.
9. Therefore God is Evil.
10. Because Atheists say so.
About the only thing I see missing is:
ReplyDelete11. Because Atheism is merely an absence of belief in a god or gods, nothing more, nothing less.
There might be something else in between 1. and 2., usually some variation of the Euthyphro dilemma. I love Vox Day's destruction of it in his book The Irrational Atheist. A fun read!
The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, And Hitchens
For an Atheist, there is no problem because evil doesn't exist for them.
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ReplyDeleteAw. What are all these comment deleted by the author posts. I want to see the rabid Atheists defend their "morality".
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