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DO WE HAVE
ENOUGH
DEFINING TERMS
“(The term) seems (perhaps independently) to have been
introduced by T. H. Huxley at a party in London to found the
Metaphysical Society, which flourished for over a decade
and to which belonged notable thinkers and leaders of
opinion. Huxley thought that as many of these people liked
to describe themselves as adherents of various ‘isms’ he
would invent one for himself. He took it from a description in
Acts 17:23 of an altar inscribed ‘to an unknown God’. Huxley
thought that we would never be able to know about the
ultimate origin and causes of the universe.”
(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/#3)
REASONS FOR
DISBELIEF
THE INCONSISTENCY OF
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE
THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE
REASONS FOR
DISBELIEF
There is not a person in the world that
behaves as badly as praying mantises.
But wait, you say, there is no right or
wrong in nature; right and wrong is a
human concept! Precisely! We are
moral creatures in an amoral world....
(Anne Dillard)
REASONS FOR
DISBELIEF
In the absence of God....each...ethical and legal
system...will be differentiated by the answer it
chooses to give to one key question: who
among us ought to be able to declare “law” that
ought to be obeyed?...Either God exist or He
does not, but if He does not, nothing and no one
else can take His place
(Arthur Leff, Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law)
REASONS FOR
DISBELIEF
As things are now, everything is up for grabs.
Nevertheless: napalming babies is bad.
Starving the poor is wicked. Buying and selling
each other is depraved...There is such a thing
as evil. Al together now: Sez Who? God help
us.
(Arthur Leff, Unspeakable Ethics, Unnatural Law)
REASONS FOR
DISBELIEF
THE INCONSISTENCY OF
RELIGIOUS PEOPLE
THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE
LACK OF REVELATION
REASONS FOR
DISBELIEF
‘I have been reading poems, romances, vision
literature, legends, and myths all my life. I know
what they are like. I know none of them are like
this. Of this (gospel) text there are only two
possible views. Either this is reportage...or else,
some unknown writer...without known
predecessors or successors, suddenly
anticipated the whole technique of modern
novelistic, realistic narrative…”
(C.S. LewisChristian Reflections, p.155)
THE GOSPEL IS
PROPOSITIONAL
THE BIBLE IS NOT WRITTEN IN A MANNER
THAT ENCOURAGES INDECISIVENESS
THESE THINGS ARE EITHER TRUE OF
FALSE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THEM
DRIVES US TO MAKE A DECISION
WHAT WILL YOU DO
WITH THE GOSPEL
WILL YOU SNEER?
WILL YOU HEAR AGAIN CONCERNING THIS?
WILL YOU BELIEVE?