The God Delusion

understandings of God and the universe. There is a set of seven basic principles which hold the practice together and serve as a framework or underlying foundation for practitioners or those who wish to better understand Kabbalah. The seven principles can be summarized as follows: God is mysterious to the point of being unknowable, unreachable, indescribable, beyond gender, incomprehensible, and infinite in being; every single thing, feeling, or experience in the world/universe is a…

and their faith in God. Elie Wiesel, author of Night, was one of those who fell and began to doubt the very existence of God. The Jews and Elie still had faith that God had a greater purpose in mind, and though they opposed the idea of suffering, they would suffer with pride. The reason is that they believed that they were a part of God's plan. And so Wiesel and his town were indoctrinated into the camps, believing that if their faith endured, they would be saved. Soon the delusions faded and…

He will frame the argument in terms of justification for the individual having the experience; he is not arguing that everyone should believe in God on the basis of religious experience. Rather, if the argument succeeds, it will show that those who have had religious experiences of God (of the right sort) have prima facie justification for belief in God. Kwan’s argument is based on what he calls the principle of critical trust, or PCT, which is derived from his notion of prima facie…

created by God and God only. While Atheists believe there is no God at all, and they have different views on how the world was created. Christianity verses Atheistic Theism: they are two completely different worldviews. This is where I will compare and contrast my worldview to the Atheist worldview. The ultimate reality is, “something that is the supreme, final, and fundamental power in all reality”, which is God. Christians believe that God is the ultimate reality. We believe that God created…

the work. Looking back on his life, Augustine remarks, “You [God] stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you” (Augustine 3). Without a relationship with God, we will never be able to achieve a happy life. The first instance where we see Augustine’s misery is in his account of his childhood. While discussing his time growing up, Augustine says, “Oh God,…

that he liked and respected, who were reasonable and correct, all suffered from the delusion of Christianity. The non-religious authors that he once loved now seemed shallow and too simple. Lewis writes that, “A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere -‘Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,’ as Herbert says, ‘fine nets and stratagems.’ God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous” (191). To every realm of literature he…

In the vast study of philosophy, a particular question has baffled even the most intelligent minds. This question is, “Does God exist?” Philosophers have considered the answer to this question for centuries, each coming up with their own argument and reasons behind their thinking. A platform of debate often used is Antony Flew’s parable of the two explorers, who find a garden so beautiful, that one of the explorers is positive that there must be a gardener tending to it, even if he can’t be…

ironic because in concentration camps he is forced to rely on that air and on his life, but cannot depend on his religion. Elie’s belief in God wavers as he is faced with brutality and savagery and sees others subject to such inhumanity that he wonders why God has not saved his people yet. After witnessing the hanging of the little angel pipel, he is angry with God,…

run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation for anything important,” would be seen as accurate by both Barbara Ehrenreich and Gershom Gorenberg. In Ehrenreich’s book, “Living With a Wild God”, she talks about being an atheist and how growing up in a non-religious home made her become a rationalist. In Gorenberg’s book, “The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount”, he focuses on the role played by the Temple…

groups exit tragically, based on the nature and context of their teachings that front certain ideologies on death. Heaven’s Gate theology comes across as the last stage of the vagabond transition of the Marshal Applewhite and Bonnie Nettle beliefs of delusion into a sophisticated suicide internet cult (Passintino…