Challenges To Religious Belief Flashcards
(20 cards)
The logical problem of evil arguments
- classical God
- Epicurian Paradox
- Lanctantius
- omnipotence
The evidential problem of evil
- William Rowe
- unjustified and justified evil
- Gregory Paul
- 350billion premature deaths
Augustinian-type theodicy
- soul-deciding theodicy
- privation
- evil and free will
- Jesus
Strengths and Weaknesses of Augustinian-type theodicy
Strengths:
- inconsistent triad
- biblical
- privation
Weaknesses:
- unjust
- omniscience
- evolution
- natural evil
Ireaneun-type theodicy
- soul making
- imperfect
- free will
- natural evil- Hick
- heaven
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ireaneun-type theodicy
STRENGTHS:
- bible
- problem of evil
- purpose
WEAKNESSES:
- all go to heaven
- Jesus’ sacrifice
- the limit of God
- infant deaths
who was Sigmand Freud?
austrian psycologist
put forward theory on why humans felt the need to be religious
what 2 theories did Freud put forward?
- religion is a neurosis
- religion is an illusion
what did freud argue in ‘religion is a neurosis’?
“religion is a neurosis that a person must pass through on their journey from childhood to maturity”
what 3 ideas does Freud put forward in ‘ religion is a neurosis’?
- a collective neurosis
- the primal hordes
- the oedipus complex
what 2 ideas did Freud put forward in ‘ religion is an illusion’?
- wish fulfilment
- reaction against helplessness
what Christian rule does Freud quote?
“if one strikes you on one cheek turn then, the other also”
what is the name of freud’s book where he puts forward ‘primal hordes’
totem and taboo
what is the name ofRichdard Dawkin’s book?
the God delusion
Freud
religion is a neurosis: “religion is a neurosis that a person must pass through on their journey from childhood to maturity”
religion is an illusion: “if one strikes you on one cheek turn the other also”- bible
carl jung
the human mind: “a reservoir of experiences of our species”
the archetypes: “being aware of your own darkness is the best way to understand the darkness of others”
advantages to Jung’s theory
“jung really understands the depth of the human mind and soul”- psychologist John Schunaker
atheism
“prayers and sacrifices to the God’s are of no avail” -protagoras
difference between atheism and agnosticism
atheism= “a psychological state of not believing in God”
new atheism
“the process of non-thinking is called faith” - Richard Dawkins
