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The Illusion of Agency as a Mark of Ultimacy
Open Theology, 2018 This essay proposes that action unaccompanied by the usual feeling of conscious agency constitutes a “mark of ultimacy.” Characteristically religious statements of “agentless action” find support in social psychological and cognitive scientific research ...
Nicholson Hugh
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Seeing Through the Invisible Pink Unicorn [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores the quasi-religious aspects of the Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU), an internet based spoof of religion. IPU message boards situate a moral orientation in an ongoing interactional process that sacralizes parody and an idealized form of ...
Abel, Andrew Stuart, Schaefer, Andrew P.
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, 2017 Skeptical theism is a family of responses to the evidential problem of evil. What unifies this family is two general claims. First, that even if God were to exist, we shouldn’t expect to see God’s reasons for permitting the suffering we observe.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen
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The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion, written by Nathan Johnstone [PDF]
, 2021 Lloyd Strickland
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Ateizm urojony – rzeczywiste wyzwanie
Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie, 2015 „Atheism Delusion” is a phenomenon where one can see „a real challenge”. Both believers and unbelievers live in a world where the sense of the sacred has been lost.
Sławomir Zatwardnicki
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The Hindu Buddha according to the theology of the Bengali Vaishnava Acharya Bhaktivedanta Swami [PDF]
, 1998 In the broad Indian religious culture we find two basic concepts of the inner structure of the Holy. The Advaita religion believes in the 'not-two' will say absolute 'oneness' of the ultimate reality.
Weber, Edmund
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Hume, Causation and Two Arguments Concerning God [PDF]
, 2014 In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume (1779/1993) appeals to his account of causation (among other things) to undermine certain arguments for the existence of God.
Megill, Jason
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Symmetry lost: A modal ontological argument for atheism?
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract The modal ontological argument for God's existence faces a symmetry problem: a seemingly equally plausible reverse modal ontological argument can be given for God's nonexistence. Here, we argue that there are significant asymmetries between the modal ontological argument and its reverse that render the latter more compelling than the former ...
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Skeptical and Spiritual Atheisms [PDF]
Skeptical atheism is deeply concerned with the development of a true atheistic belief-system which competes with allegedly false theistic belief-systems.
Steinhart, Eric
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