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Best arguments for or against God's existence
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RE: Best arguments for or against God's existence
IMO, presuppositional apologetics are the most useful rhetorical device, while arguments from personal experience are the most effective.    

Against, for the abrahamics, at least, the fact that magic book is manifestly untrue from cover to cover.  More broadly, the human origins of god stories and their attributions through time and across cultures.  It gets dropped as an offhand remark, alot, but I don't think that the faithful truly appreciate how immensely unlikely it would be that their completely fictional god stories just so happened to line up with some existent being somewhere.  Whether there are gods or not, we know the source and nature of our stories about them. Tim Minchin, of all people (lol) nailed it.

"Fuck me Sam, what are the odds, that of history's endless parade of gods....."
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RE: Best arguments for or against God's existence - by The Grand Nudger - May 21, 2019 at 10:51 pm

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