Showing posts with label One Less God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One Less God. Show all posts

Friday, December 26, 2014

One Less God vs Thomist Deduction

From another commenter at Feser's blog, replying to a drive-by interloper trying to use the (useless) "one less god" argument that "we are all atheists, and atheists believe in one less god than you do" childish argument:
"Wotan. Zeus. Thor. Poseidon. Apollo.

"I reply: All of whom are mythical anthropomorphic super beings. God however in the Classic Sense is the Uncaused Cause, Pure Actuality, etc...whose existence can be known by reason alone. Sorry but it is impossible for any Classic Theistic philosophical argument for the existence of the Classic Theistic God to be used to argue for the existence of any of the above mythical beings."
Atheists do not do logical deduction; they use bumper sticker quotes as their reasoning. They even fill books with such reasoning, rarely or never attempting to approach actual arguments.