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Catholic upbringing |
Sent to a catholic school
Know other religious figures and idolise those who hold same belief Take part in sacraments Catholic environment at home |
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Religious experience |
Numinous experience Conversion Miracle Prayer |
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Designtheory |
Anythingthat has been designed needs a designer Evidenceof complexities in nature that suggest design Onlyone possible entity capable of designing a universe (god) Evidenceof design is therefore evidence of god |
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Causationtheory |
allbasic actions and occurrences need a cause and effect therefore,the universe and everything in it must have a first cause thereis nothing explainable that could have come before the first cause thisfirst cause must have been god |
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catholicresponse to unanswered prayers |
godmay answer your prayers in an unexpected way god’slove is absolute so the prayer may not be answered directly but in the mostloving way theyhave faith that god knows what’s best for them and will answer accordingly someprayers are selfish and therefore not answering the prayer would be the mostloving thing |
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evil andsuffering and belief in god (for belief) |
Wecannot understand gods reason for allowing suffering Godgave us freewill and therefore our suffering is our own fault Lifeand its suffering is just a test before paradise Weneed suffering and evil so the good have something to fight against like Jesusdid |
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evil andsuffering and belief in god (non belief) |
Ifgod is omnipotent he must be able to remove all evil from the world Ifgod is omnibenevolent he must wish to remove all evil from the world Ifgod is omniscient he must be aware of the suffering in the world Itfollows that if god was any of those things he would be noticeably trying toreduce evil and suffering in the world |
