PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

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9 Arguments against monotheism Three questions A theodicy is an explanation of the role that evil plays in God’s overall plan. A ...

124 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS lifetimes in which he has behaved so viciously as to deserve this treatment. Bad things ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 125 The existence of evil is the most influential consideration against the existence of God. The f ...

126 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS typical monotheism, so that route is closed. An omnicompetent but morally imperfect bein ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 127 Summary regarding a finite deity and evil The motivation to take refuge in the idea of a finite ...

128 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The consistency issue Straightforward inconsistency One might claim, as did my own Intro ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 129 Problems with this use of the Consistency Strategy There is a simple rule of logical inference ...

130 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS have conquered evil, and in the best possible world everyone’s quiver of virtues will be ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 131 agents. If the truth is as assumed, then in creating moral agents to populate the best possible ...

132 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS possible that there be evils in it; but odds are there won’t be. So (roughly) the assump ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 133 Suppose that 2a and 2b provide both background assumptions and presuppositions of that claim. T ...

134 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS miserably selfish person being allowed to suffer as a way of providing her an opportunit ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 135 doing, and (ii) nothing we know ahout S is incompatible with S’s actually being in C when S end ...

136 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The “unimaginably pointful” argument 1 There are unimaginably pointful evils. 2 If there ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 137 Concerning premise 2** of the “unimaginably pointful” argument: evils that are unimaginably poi ...

138 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS consequences for the sufferer, at least on traditional notions concerning the nature and ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 139 seems no reason whatever to think them true. This much of Rowe’s case seems impeccable. Animal ...

140 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS by entailment, natural law, or the like. But, the Rowean claims, the reasoning in 4–6 ex ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 141 6aa It is reasonable to believe that Bill’s animals are suffering, and unreasonable not to do s ...