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J.L. MACKIE (Religious Experience)
Religious experience...is essentially incapable of supporting any argument for the additional central doctines of theism.
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William James (Religious Experience)
The results of religious experiences are the only reliable basis for judging whether it is a genuine experience of the divine.
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St Anselm (Ontological)
Without doubt, therefore,there exists, both in the understanding and in reality, something than which a greater cannot be thought.
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Rene Descartes (Ontological)
Descartes famously said that the fact the he doubted himself proved that his own existence 'Cogito, ergo, sum' - ' I think therefore I am'
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Immanuel Kant (Ontological)
God is an object of pure thought
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Douglas Gasking (Ontological)
....there is no need to view the creation of the world as the most marvellous imaginable
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David Hume (Ontological)
We cannot define something into existence - even if it has all the perfections we can imagine
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norman Malcom (Ontological)
....existence cannot be a perfection of something
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Alvin Plantinga (Critiques of Religious belief)
If you exclude the supernatural from science, then if the world is supernaturally caused, you won't be able to reach the truth scientifically
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Karl Marx (Critiques of Religious belief)
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world.....it is the opium of the people
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Peter Moore (Critiques of Religious belief)
Most post-Freudians think that his need to explain everything by sex tells us most about his obsessional neurosis than ours.
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St Augustine (Critiques of Religious belief)
Either god cannot abolish evil or he will not: if he will not, then he is not all good
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Thomas Aquinas (Critiques of Religious belief)
But the name of god means the he is infinite goodness. If, therefore, god existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore god does not exist
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Richard Dawkins (Critiques of Religious belief)
Faith is the great cop out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate the evidence
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Melvin Tinker (Critiques of Religious belief)
Dawkins exhibits all the hallmarks of those forms of religion he so despises; vehemence, narrow mindedness and intolernce ...he is a fundamentalist of the scientific kind
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Maurice Wiles (Critiques of Religious belief)
It seems strange that no miraculous intervention prevented Auschwitz or Hiroshima. The purposes apparently forwarded for some of the miracles acclaimed in the christian tradition seem trivial by comparison
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A J Ayer (Religious Language)
To say that god exists is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance
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Anthony Flew (Religious Language)
Flew described realist language as ..........'crypto commands, expressions of wishes, disguised ejaculations, concealed ethics, or anything else but assertions
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Paul Tillich (Religious Language)
Symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate because it transcends the capacity of any finite reality to express it directly
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Dr Rowan Williams (Religious Language)
Like all other serious discourse, religious language requires a symbolic foundation
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Keith Ward (Religious Language)
We start talking about god when we start adopting a basic reactive attitude to all our experience....God is that mysterious depth which is mediated in certain symbols and events in our lives
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Peter Vardy (Religious Language)
In finding the value of religious language, the individual finds god
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Ludwig Wittgenstein (Religious Language)
I think differently, in a different way. I say different things to myself, I have a different picture
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