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! Work of scholars ! - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1) link between truthfulness of belief & its moral effect. e.g. loving god might cause you to be more loving to others
      - 2) moral life is good evidence a person is sane & truthful, makes it more likely to trust their RE are true
- - - - People at the top benefit the most
  - - - E.g. MLK (for black Americans, not just right but to get them out of poverty through education)
    - - marx only focuses on institutionalised religion not personal faith
    - - Was a functionalist - everything has a function, if it doesn’t have 1 or loses it society will get rid of it
      - Religions functions include providing a moral system
      - Perhaps secularisation is occurring because we have other social concepts to fill the role of religion, e.g. social media
- - - - Though enlightenment scientist were arrogant
  - - - Aquinas - theses facts are self-evident from nature (a posterori) morality, the existence of god etc…
    - - e.g. FDM
- - - - E.g. compulsive behaviours of OCD & prayers, rosary beads, Mikveh
- - - - influenced by Aristotle & the Bible
      - wrote Summa Theologica to marry everything together
        
        in Latin - church controlled knowledge
      - god can be known A Posteriori
    - - Reason - A priori - OA
      - revelation - A posteriori - DA, CA, MA, NML
  - - - e.g, Paley & the DA - knowledge achieved through philosophy not religious dogma
    - - deists wanted to keep the rational useful parts of religious (kernel) such as the moral args, but discard the useless, irrational (husk), aka RE, fighting
  - - - rejected A posteriori args (DA, CA)
      - inductive leaps
      - Hume's fork - the forms of knowledge (a priori & a posteriori) cannot describe God ==> unverifiable
    - - rejected A priori args (OA)
      - existence is not a predicate
      - Kant's theory of knowledge - you cant know anything outside of space & time as you are in space & time (God is transcendent) - human knowledge is limited
  - - - "true religions is a taste and feel of the infinite"
  - - - religion as a means of oppression
    - - religion as 'infantile' & mental crutch
      - Oedipus complex
- - - - E.g. terrorism, Westburoro baptist church
  - - - Tantamount to child abuse in children
  - - - But does say humans can find meaning in own lives
    - - MLK - equality, SE, NML, abolition of slavery
      - Sociological critique - functionalist view - religion has positive functions in society, especially social control
- - - - = due to the absence of evidence for God we should presume God doesn't exist
      - conflates atheism with agnosticism - they are redefining atheism to the absence of belief in God - this is agnosticism
      - WLC criticises Atheists who say they don't believe in God cause of a lack of evidence, as absence or lack of belief is not true atheism
      - "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"