I believe that the existence of a supremely perfect deity, or God, is incompatible with natural and moral evil. The belief in a higher being, having control over one’s life is not believable. The belief that ‘this being’ is only good, and only does good yet there is still poverty, crime, rape and murders that occur every day is just contradicting in itself. A valid example that was used in class was the little girl from Minnesota dying of cancer and her mother not taking her to the doctor because
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H.J. McCloskey, claims that “proofs” offered by theists for the existence of God simply do not provide evidence that there is one omnipotent, omniscient being. His arguments about “proofs” question why people are theists, and why theists should abandon their arguments or “proofs”. He claims that most people do not believe in God because of their lack of knowledge about evolution, but in fact most theist believe in God and consider themselves theists, because there is documented evidence that supersedes
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Williams PHI208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor: Barbara Palomino de Velasco June 10, 2013 The Bible diagnoses humanity's deepest need and then prescribes what it claims is the only antidote: God saves sinners. Is there an intellectual basis for believing in God? Or is being religious just a matter of faith? Christianity invites scrutiny into its claims and its reasons for having faith and these deserve examination... Some people feel that acceptance of God is entirely a matter of faith
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Hinduism Hindus believe that the world was created by Brahma, a servant of their god Vishnu. According to the stories, Vishnu created grass, flowers, trees and plants of all kinds. He then created animals, birds and the many fish that swim in the sea. The ability to hear, touch, smell and other senses were then given to the creatures, as well. Death to the Hindu’s is a sequence of change you go through. Once you pass, your soul leaves your body. They believe in reincarnation or rebirth. This
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they would ask God if they were guaranteed to receive a response. The leading question asked by those surveyed was, without surprise, “Why is there suffering and pain in our world?” The occurrence of evil – demonstrated through suffering, pain, moral wickedness, and other similar things– signifies a challenging subject for anyone desiring to defend the existence of a true God. For non-believers, suffering and evil present an intimidating blockade to ever recognizing the reality of a God whom is both
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March 11th, 09 English 112 Antigone: Divine Law vs. Human Law The play entitled Antigone was written by a man named Sophocles, a scholarly author of philosophy and logic. The play Antigone is probably one of the most prominent interpretations of a tragic drama. The two main characters of the play are Antigone and Creon. There is much conflict between Antigone and Creon throughout the play, both of them having their own ideas and opinions
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inferring the idea that conscience has nothing to do with religion; rather it is to do with upbringing. However there are responses to these secular approaches coming from Newman, Aquinas and Butler who infer the idea that conscience is a voice from God, a God given ability or a natural guide to decision making. This essay will assess both approaches and their weigh them up based on their coherence. * Piaget- learned Piaget put forward the idea that conscience is learned. He was a developmental psychologist
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The concept of moral imperative was first established by Immanuel Kant. He suggested that an action must be done because it is the right thing to do. In a situation involving the environment it would seem that the moral imperative would be to care and nurture the environment as we live in it and would like it to be sustainable for future generations. Although some people disagree and thing that the responsibility to care for the environment is not on them, and maybe that the environment doesn’t need
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school. They come home or to their dorms from the excessive day of learning and they may say a prayer or they may not. For the ones that do say a prayer, they may feel as if the prayer would have been better said during school at the time of a “stressful situation or test”. This was not the case because prayer is being banned from school. This topic has been a very hot one from the time of the first person speaking out against having prayer in the school setting even until now showing no signs of
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what they believe in regards to the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, the way that they observe rituals, and the way they live their lives according to the moral code established by their specific religions. The first criteria that I felt needed to be met for the planet to be considered religious was what the population believed in regards to the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe according to their beliefs. Christianity, the planet’s most common form of religion, believes that there
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