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Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
(December 18, 2016 at 7:13 pm)Ignorant Wrote:
Balaco Wrote:


To be fair, none of Thomas's 5 ways individually prove that a divine being exists. Instead, they demonstrate the existence of more abstract concepts like subsisting cause, being, necessity, intelligence, etc., and THEN he simply says that, when we say the word god, we mean those things.

1st way: An unmoved, prime mover of everything else that moves. "and this everyone understands to be God"
2nd way: A first/un-caused efficient cause of every other cause. "to which everyone gives the name of God"
3rd way: Necessary being which causes all other being. "This all men speak of as god"
4th way: Perfect being/goodness/truth/beauty which causes the incomplete being/goodness/truth/beauty of everything else. "and this we call god"
5th way: Intelligent and teleological being which directs natural things to their end. "and this we call god"

In other words, if all 5 ways prove what they claim to prove, then when a theist says "god exists", they mean that something exists which is unmoved, un-caused, necessary, perfect, and intelligent, which is the source, cause, and end of all other things. In short, it means that being-itself just simply is, of itself, and that's what we call god.

All 5 ways make an argument from ignorance. They're all flawed.
But no believer has ever been able to acknowledge this.... so I won't waste my time typing out how it is.
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RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist? - by pocaracas - December 18, 2016 at 7:17 pm

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