Pages Tagged with #theism

The Assumptions about God and Creation, of Both Theists and Atheists, in the following sections:

• 4. Proving the Existence of God Would Not Support Any Particular Religion
• 2.4. God Has Free Will
• 2.5. God is Rational
• 2.2. God is Omnipotent (All-Powerful)
• 2.9. God Communicates With Us
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Atheism and Secularism, in the following sections:

• 4. Atheist Religions
• 1. Implicit Atheism, Explicit Atheism and Other Forms of Atheism
• 6. Intellectualism and Atheism
• 7. Atheism Attracts Crazy Criticisms
• 5.1. Lower-case or Upper-case Atheism?
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God is Logically Impossible: The Argument for Atheism from Incoherence, in the following sections:

• 6. The Features and Properties of God Were All Non-Created, Which Contradict the Idea of a God as the Sole Creator
• 1. God Cannot Have Free Will
• 7. The Unwarranted Assumptions of Theism
• 2. God Cannot Be All-Powerful (Omnipotent)
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The Universe Could Not Have Been Created by God: The Failure of First Cause Arguments, in the following sections:

• 4. Logic Must Predate the First Cause
• 8. Energy Cannot Come From Nothing - Therefore God Exists
• 1. The Argument that Everything Needs a Creator, Therefore God Exists as the First Cause
• 2. Occam's Razor: The Complexity of God and the Simplicity of the Natural Laws
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Do We Need Religion to Have Good Morals?, in the following sections:

• 3. Human Rights and Secular Morals: Ethics Without Religion or Faith
• 0.1. The Social and Moral Index
• 1.2. Rewards and Punishment
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Pascal's Wager is Safer in Reverse: Picking a Religion is Dangerous Business, in the following sections:

• 5. Attaining Heaven: Selfishness Versus Humility
• 4. Theists Do Not Really Believe in Pascal's Wager
• 3.1. Ignorance and Avoidance of Religion are Best
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The Argument that Everything Needs a Creator, Therefore God Exists as the First Cause, in the following sections:

• 3. Some Possible First Causes (Monotheism, Karma or Atheism)
• 1. The Appeal of First Cause Arguments for God
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From the Big Bang Theory to Multiverses: How and Why Does the Universe Exist?, in the following sections:

• 2.2. The First Law of Thermodynamics Versus Energy From Nothing
• 7. Religion and Creation
• 6. Scientific Pantheism

Christianity: The Bible Teachings on Those Who Believe Wrongly, in the following sections:

• 3. Pascal's Wager is Safer in Reverse: Picking a Religion is Dangerous Business
• 1. The Dangers of Worshipping the Wrong God
• 2. The Dangers of Believing in God Wrongly

The History of Atheism, in the following sections:

• 1. Where Did Atheism First Arise?
• 3. 16th-17th Century CE
• 4. 17th-18th Century: From the Enlightenment and Onwards

Time to Move On: Religion Has Cost Too Much, in the following sections:

• 3.5. The God of the Gaps
• 3.1. Religion is Bad for Intelligence
• 4.2. The Social and Moral Development Index

Agnosticism, in the following sections:

• 2. A Sensible and Honest Stance
• 5. Opposing Arguments
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God and Pronouns: God has No Gender, in the following sections:

• 2. Religions and Beliefs With a Gender-Neutral Divinity
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Prayer to God in Christianity and Islam: It is Useless and Satanic!, in the following sections:

• 1.2. Praying is Selfish: Meditation, Not Communication
• 1.4. Prayer as a Passive Aggressive Activity

God Has No Free Will, in the following sections:

• 3. A Moral God Has No Free Will
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Humanism, in the following sections:

• 5. The Basis of Humanism's Morals and Charitable Work by Humanists
• 6. International Statistics Show the Success of Humanistic Approaches to Human Rights

God and Goodness: Can a Perfectly Good God Exist? Is God Love?, in the following sections:

• 2. Any Perfectly Good Being Cannot Have Free Will
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The God of the Gaps, in the following sections:

• 4. The Shrinking Capability of Prayer
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Is God All-Powerful? Can God or Anything Truly Be Omnipotent?, in the following sections:

• 2. Logical Limitations: An Omnipotent God is Impossible
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Prayer is Magic, and Prayers are Spells, in the following sections:

• 2. Evidence Shows Theists Believe in Human Action, Not Divine Prayer
• 1. Prayer is Magic

The Anthropic Coincidences: Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life?, in the following sections:

• 4. Scientific Support for the Idea that the Laws of Physics Mean Life Must Appear
• 5. No Universal Creator: Energy From Nothing

Human Rights and Secular Morals: Ethics Without Religion or Faith, in the following sections:

• 3. Human Communities Share Most Morals No Matter What Religion They Are
• 2. Human Rights Perform Much Better Than Religious Rules

Institutionalized Religions Have Their Numbers Inflated by National Polls, in the following sections:

• 5.2. It is Popular to Mistake Theism in General for the Dominant Religion
• 5.1. Hidden Secularisation

What Causes Religion and Superstitions?, in the following sections:

• 2.4. Moralizing: Being Religious in Order to Be a Good Person
• 5.8. Intelligence and Suggestibility

Mass Belief and the False Consensus Effect: Everyone Believes It So It Must Be True!: 3.4. Religion

Anti-Religious Forces: Specific Factors Fuelling Secularisation: 2.5. Intelligence and Education

Metaphysical Solipsism is Not True: 4. The First Cause

What is Science and the Scientific Method?: 1.5. Occam's Razor: Simplicity & Fewer Assumptions are Better

Is Free Will the Reason God Allows Evil and Suffering?: 2.2. Natural Evil is Not the Result of Free Will

Natural Evil such as Earthquakes: Evidence That God is Not Good

Give to Charity Directly, Not to Church: 4. Motivations Behind Charitable Work

Pride and Ego as a Cause of Religion: 1. Is Atheism Caused by Pride? By Brian Holtz

Is Omniscience Possible? Does God Know Everything?

Judaism: 3. Types of Judaism

God Does Not Need Prayer, Prophets, Souls, Evangelists Nor Religion: 1.2. Praying is Selfish: Meditation, Not Communication

Christian Moral Theory and Morality in Action: Biblical Morals and Social Disaster: 12. Born Again Christians Divorce Most Often

Religion in the United Kingdom: Diversity, Trends and Decline: 5.3. Other Beliefs

Buddhism is an Atheist Religion: 1. Supporting evidence

Fundamentalism and Literalism in World Religions: 6.4. Charting the Historical Records of Types of Religion - Who's Been the Most Tolerant?

Homocentricity or Anthropocentrism: Why Do Religions Think Humanity Is Central to God and Creation?

Masturbation, Relationships, Honesty: 2. Harmful Taboos and Inhibitions

Religion and Intelligence

Botswana (Republic of Botswana)

The Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th Centuries: 2.5. Explicit Atheism

The Gradual Instruction of Humankind by a Series of Prophets from God: 2. God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic

Simple Answers in a Complex World: What Causes Religion?: 3. The God of the Gaps

Non-Religious Secular Jews (Cultural Judaism)

Human Rights: 7. Are Secular or Religious Codes Better for Morality?

Science and Religion: 4. Intelligence Acting Against Religion

Different Types of Atheism and Atheist Beliefs

Christianity and Sexuality: The Damaging Results of Faulty Teachings: 5. Divorce Rates and Wifebeating

What is Religion? How Do You Define Religion?: 5. Transcendental Beliefs

Dictionary List of Different Types of Religion

When Human Religions Meet Intelligent Alien Life: 3. There are Already Some Alien-Centered Religions, and Universalist Religions Cope Quite Well With ETI

The Human Ego: 5. Species-Wide Egotism in Religion

Human Religions

A List of All Religions and Belief Systems

Marriage: Its Diversity and Character: 10.2. Christian Divorce Rates

The Resting God - The Hiding God: 1. The Hidden God - Why Not Provide Evidence?

Deism

The Bahá'í Faith: 3.3. The Failed Experience Theodicy

Contradictions in the Bible: 2.6. Masturbation

Proverbs Chapter 6: 3.0. Proverbs 6:20-35 - Warnings against those who commit adultery

God's Methods of Communication: Universal Truth Versus Hebrew and Arabic

Christianity and Women: Biblical Misogyny and Male Dominance: 4.2. Christian Divorce Rates and Wifebeating

Consciousness as an Emergent Property: 3. Pantheism

Fearing God: 3. Does Fear Get You to Heaven?

Pantheism

The Bane of Monotheism: Against Single-God Religions

Theological Problems with Heaven, Paradise and Nirvana: 3. Aiming for Heaven (Pascal's Wager)

Altruism is an Illusion: 3.4. Aiming for Heaven

Christian and Biblical Family Values from the Old Testament to Jesus: 7. Divorce Rates