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Religion Crash Course (Pascel's Wager (How do you will yourself into…
Religion Crash Course
Pascel's Wager
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Pragmatism is the theory that finding a true belief is less important than finding beliefs that work practically in the living of your life like when you set your alarm 10 minutes before you need to get up so you can lay in bed
You will never reason your way to believe in God and you must choose. Even if there is the slightest chance that God exists then you should always bet on God because the stakes are so high.
Counter-argument Pascal was wrong choosing to believe in an imaginary deity will rob you of something like sleeping in on Sundays
There are benefits to believing even if it is not true because belief has inherent benefits like the security of the feeling that the world is ordered and meaningful
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How and why you believe does not matter because to God it does not matter how He got you but that He got you
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Useful religious systems need more than fake it until you make it. For example, if you were raised in a religious family but you weren't really feeling it.
Kierkegaard and Fideism
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"The fantastic thing about belief in God is that it's entirely irrational - you can't do it with your brain.
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Counterclaim: Russel postulated of the existence of a teapot floating somewhere between Earth and Mars. On Earth, there was a group of Teapotists. People who believed that since we could not disprove the teapot's existence they were justified in believing in the teapot. They constructed statues weekly services and appealed to the teapot for help. Everybody else thought the teapotists were crazy because there was no evidence to support their belief in the teapot. The teapots replied that you can prove the teapot is not there.
Pragmatism or a leap of faith might be a solution to the problem of God's Existence if you are not satisfied with any of the other more evidence-based arguments. However, believing in something just because is it expedient or excuses you from having to have any reasons at all still has risks. If you can leap to God you can also leap to the flying spaghetti monster. We could even leap to certain beliefs about God like God wants us to deny rights to certain people or even kill someone. If this is true you end up with I have faith because I have faith in the things I chose. If you can say that the you can not tell someone that their beliefs are dangerous.
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Aquinas
Cosmological arguments
Argument from Motion
The world is moving. Movement is caused by movers. Everything that was set into motion must have been set into motion by something else that was moving. Something must have started the motion in the first place. For example dominoes falling. Therefore there must be a first mover, God the unmoved mover.
Arguments from Causation
Some things are caused. Anything that is caused has to be caused by something else. Therefore there must be an orginal causer, God.
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Intelligent Design
The watchmaker analogy
What would you think if you found a watch laying on the ground? Would you think that the watch just appeared? No. You would see the complexity of the watch and notice that the watch's part come together in a way to accomplish a goal. You would assume that someone made the watch. The existence of a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker. Therefore, the existence of the world implies the existence of a world maker.
Things to remember: You can disagree with the argument even if you agree with the conclusion,