Not convinced

[chard]

Will I go to hell for reading over 300 proofs of God's existence? (I really did read them all, too.)

My favourite: An idiot could see that God exists. I am an idiot. I can see that God exists. God exists.

I heard Pat Robertson use number 266 on television. I find 328 quite appealing, but only because I've read "A Fire Upon the Deep".

Comments

[ashley_y]

I think 210 is compelling.

[ashley_y]

More seriously, and in the same vein, 197 is more or less Blake's argument for God. I think it works if you define God as prettiness, and that's not necessarily a bad definition.

[chard]

Hey, that's one they don't have: God is X. X exists. Therefore God exists.

[gerald_duck]

59 comes very close…

[p4user]

Number 3 is very similar though:

(1) I define God to be X.
(2) Since I can conceive of X, X must exist.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

These are just jokes against muddled thinking, right?

[chard]

Well, yes and no. I believe they are distillations of real arguments.

[ashley_y]

(1) God is anything that it feels good to worship.
(2) It feels good to worship beauty.
(3) That flower is pretty.
(4) Therefore God exists.

It seems to me (1) is a better definition of God than the one these atheists have in mind. It seems to apply to gods of all cultures for a reasonable definition of "worship", and generally speaking if you were to continue to worship something people would say that it is your god.

[chard]

But it's even more "wow" if you consider how the universe came to be without God, so athiesm maximizes the "wow" factor.