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The Existence Of God And The Problem Of Evil A Philosophical Evaluation
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And certainly that man which
nothing greater Than Can be conceived cannot exist merely in The
understanding. For instance it exist merely In the understanding, then
it can be conceived To exist in reality which is greater.13
St.
Anselm was the proponent of this theory, he argues that for something to
have been conceive in our understanding affirms existence in reality
1.4 ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
Different
philosophers at one point or the other have objected to various
argument for the existence of God. These argument are given in form of
an objection to the various arguments in support of God existence. The
school thought or philosophers that argued against the existence of God
can be regarded as atheist. We shall explain this from the perspective
of pains and evil in the world.
1.PAIN: In the words of Frederic
Nietzsche "God is dead". Nietzsche's state went here does not mean that
God once existed and now is dead. He made this statement in order to
make it clear or to stamp on the minds of the religions that with the
presence of pain natural disasters, disharmony and anarchy present in
the universe shows that there is nothing as the existence of God.
Nietzsche's maintains that:
All people with an ounce of intelligence
would hove perceive that there is no Intelligent plan to the
universe or rational Order unit: they would now understand Happen one
way and not another and that the harmony and order we imagine to
exists in the universe is merely pasted by the human mind.14
The
argument proposes that because God allows pain, disease and natural
disaster to exist he cannot be all powerful and also loving and good in
the human sense of these words. Nietzsche sees religions people as
pathetic governed by the view inculcated by religion, science and
philosophy, a view that make s them feeble losers. They view the world
as national law governed place and they stick to this slave mentality or
morality that praises the man who serve his follows with meekness and
self-sacrifice. He proposed an morality which is based on the
development of a hard kind of human being. Such a being will accept life
in all its face is, including pain and thus being will made living an
art.
Blase Pascal comments that disharmony and pain in the universe is a major pointer to the non-existence of a divine being:
I
would remain peacefully in faith. But seeing Too much to deny and too
little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied: wherefore J have a
Hundred times wished that if God maintains Nature, he should testify to
him unequivocally.15
The argument from injustices all state that
God is partial in the allocation of destines if he ever did. The
argument from multiplicity states that from the on conflicting reports
of various religions about God, affirms that the only one or even none
can be right about God.
Sigmund Freud is of the opinion that
religion or belief in God is an exercise in mass decision and serves
mainly to keep people in a state of psychological infantilism. Because
of the pain and challenges in life. Man created in his mind the figure
of an exalted father, who reassures like our own father did that all
will soon come to an end. The fact remains that if he is as powerful as
professed things ought to have been solved by now. Freud concludes that
human beings would be happier if they retained a modicum of reality in
the thinking and cultivated their own gardens.
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