God vs. Reason
Arguments for:
1. Some supernatural element beyond scientific explanation must be responsible for the creation of our known world, because logic is incapable of explaining otherwise
2. There have been documented miracles and otherwise unexplainable religious phenomena
3. Love and morality, the general desire to do good rather than harm, points to the human condition as one that is inclined toward these divine elements, therefore acting in accordance with a surreal being
Arguments against:
1. The creation of a deity is more likely a psychological inclination than an inherent truth
2. A set code of morals or singular religious belief condemning all non-believers to eternal sufferening is inconsistent with the portrait of a just and loving creator
3. The world, with all its superfluous sufferings and unfairness, does not seem to be the product of a kind, omniscient, and omnipotent being
4. Religious belief is all purely subjective
5. Why would such a being create mankind as flawed and ultimately doomed?
6. Why condemn mankind to a set of religious codes that most will be unable to follow, therefore knowingly damning them?
7. Why allow for the suffering of innocents, of children, who have done nothing and broken no divine law?
8. Why allow for infinte forgiveness of all sins when, at death, judge between redemption or condemnation?
9. Why allow for free will but also require absolute obedience?
10. How could a God condone slaying in His name, when He also teaches that all human life is precious?
11. If religion and God is inherently good, than why have the world's theocracies failed, the greatest atrocities committed in God's name, and a democratic, non-religious state proven most effective and stable?
Arguments for:
1. Some supernatural element beyond scientific explanation must be responsible for the creation of our known world, because logic is incapable of explaining otherwise
2. There have been documented miracles and otherwise unexplainable religious phenomena
3. Love and morality, the general desire to do good rather than harm, points to the human condition as one that is inclined toward these divine elements, therefore acting in accordance with a surreal being
Arguments against:
1. The creation of a deity is more likely a psychological inclination than an inherent truth
2. A set code of morals or singular religious belief condemning all non-believers to eternal sufferening is inconsistent with the portrait of a just and loving creator
3. The world, with all its superfluous sufferings and unfairness, does not seem to be the product of a kind, omniscient, and omnipotent being
4. Religious belief is all purely subjective
5. Why would such a being create mankind as flawed and ultimately doomed?
6. Why condemn mankind to a set of religious codes that most will be unable to follow, therefore knowingly damning them?
7. Why allow for the suffering of innocents, of children, who have done nothing and broken no divine law?
8. Why allow for infinte forgiveness of all sins when, at death, judge between redemption or condemnation?
9. Why allow for free will but also require absolute obedience?
10. How could a God condone slaying in His name, when He also teaches that all human life is precious?
11. If religion and God is inherently good, than why have the world's theocracies failed, the greatest atrocities committed in God's name, and a democratic, non-religious state proven most effective and stable?
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