RLGN 104 chapter 5 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
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Atheism
claims that God does not exist
- or that if He does exist we cannot know anything about Him
Buddhism
the only religion proper to adhere to a form of atheism
- regards the existence of God as ultimately irrelevant
- if God did exist nothing about Buddhism would change, it is a religion without a God
A logical conclusion that is self refuting
to make the claim that God exists is simply to say that God is among the things that
exist, but to say that God does not exist is to say that out of all the things that do exist,
God is not among them. Someone would have to have a complete exhaustive
knowledge to make that claim.
Atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell gave this rejection:
religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear. Science can teach us, and I think out
own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to
invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this
world a fit place to live in.
Agnostic(ism)
to have no knowledge. God is unknown but not necessarily unknowable is agnosticism.
Neither for nor against the claim that God exists.
A quick sampling of other notable atheists:
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzche
Karl Marx
Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA
Helen Keller
Thomas Edison
Woody Allen
Ayn Rand
Frank Zappa
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Pantheism
Everything that exists is God.
- One view: God is a force that is in all things (like in Star Wars)
- Another view: sees God as the totality of everything. All is one and one is all.
- Others see: God as manifest in many forms each a part of the ultimate reality.
- Many believe nature is just part of the whole, others believe material reality is only an
illusion.
-God is impersonal so God cannot have a moral will- whatever is, is reality and the rest
is illusion; our individual personhood is only illusion. When we die, we are absorbed into
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE GRADED A+
Atheism
claims that God does not exist
- or that if He does exist we cannot know anything about Him
Buddhism
the only religion proper to adhere to a form of atheism
- regards the existence of God as ultimately irrelevant
- if God did exist nothing about Buddhism would change, it is a religion without a God
A logical conclusion that is self refuting
to make the claim that God exists is simply to say that God is among the things that
exist, but to say that God does not exist is to say that out of all the things that do exist,
God is not among them. Someone would have to have a complete exhaustive
knowledge to make that claim.
Atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell gave this rejection:
religion is based primarily and mainly upon fear. Science can teach us, and I think out
own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to
invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this
world a fit place to live in.
Agnostic(ism)
to have no knowledge. God is unknown but not necessarily unknowable is agnosticism.
Neither for nor against the claim that God exists.
A quick sampling of other notable atheists:
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
Friedrich Nietzche
Karl Marx
Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA
Helen Keller
Thomas Edison
Woody Allen
Ayn Rand
Frank Zappa
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Pantheism
Everything that exists is God.
- One view: God is a force that is in all things (like in Star Wars)
- Another view: sees God as the totality of everything. All is one and one is all.
- Others see: God as manifest in many forms each a part of the ultimate reality.
- Many believe nature is just part of the whole, others believe material reality is only an
illusion.
-God is impersonal so God cannot have a moral will- whatever is, is reality and the rest
is illusion; our individual personhood is only illusion. When we die, we are absorbed into
