Straining to Convince Themselves

 

"They are rid of the Christian God and now believe all the more firmly that they must cling to Christian morality. They must rehabilitate themselves after every little emancipation from religion by showing in a veritably awe-inspiring way what moral fanatics they are. That is their penance."

 Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Assumption Thumping

All reasoned objections to belief in God ultimately depend on unargued God-level assumptions which the objectors must appeal to for the same universal and ultimate authority over their thinking that those objections were supposed to challenge in the idea of God.

Truth and Consequences

The scholarly method of proceeding is based simply upon a profound belief in the pervasiveness of ideas. What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

J. Gresham Machen

Devil's Advocate

"Everything I've told you is either an extraordinarily elaborate lie---or the very simple truth."

Arkady Renko
Gorky Park

Divine Simplicity

Richard Dawkins confuses the mind itself with a mind’s thoughts. A mind’s thoughts can be complex, but a mind’s thoughts are not the mind itself, because a mind can stop thinking its complex thoughts and contemplate something else instead.

adapted from William Craig

reasonablefaith.com, Q&A Question #1

A Lesson For Science

Any argument for or against belief in God, already assumes a system of God-level criterial statements that have the ability---and the authority---to decide the issue.

Invasion of the God Object

How many similarities with God does an object of thought have to have before I can no longer tell the difference between that object and God?