(August 17, 2020 at 8:55 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: I debunked all five of these arguments when I was still a senior in Catholic school (1965-6), which was instrumental in my eventually becoming an atheist. My instructor, a priest, was not interested in discussing a critique of these "proofs." The class was merely required to agree with them and memorize them.
Kind of reminds me of my instructor in college way back when I took his comparative religions class. The book from which we were learning did touch upon non-belief, atheism, but we never got that far if I recall. At the end of the class, we had to write a paper. I chose to write mine from the atheistic perspective, naturally. He returned my paper and stated that it had to be redone. Oh, I redid it, alright. I wrote a multi-page personal perspective on atheism and being against religion from my own mind, using my own words, that did not involve anything that required a bibliography. Suffice it to state, he ended up giving me an incomplete for the class because I wouldn't fall in line with what he wanted.
