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This is a video response to "Yes I am a positive atheist and here is why"
To see WayoftheBastard's original video, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mQu74ZjjEY&fmt=18
Here is the problem of hiddenness
1 - If there is a perfectly loving God, all creatures capable of explicit and positively meaningful relationship with God who have not freely shut themselves off from God are in a position to participate in such relationships--i.e., able to do so just by trying to.
2 - No one can be in a position to participate in such relationships without believing that God exists.
3 - If there is a perfectly loving God, all creatures capable of explicit and positively meaningful relationship with God who have not freely shut themselves off from God believe that God exists (from 1 and 2).
4 - It is not the case that all creatures capable of explicit and positively meaningful relationship with God who have not freely shut themselves off from God believe that God exists: there is nonresistant nonbelief; God is hidden.
5 - It is not the case that there is a perfectly loving God (from 3 and 4).
6 - If God exists, God is perfectly loving.
7 - It is not the case that God exists (from 5 and 6).
Why We Believe in Gods - Andy Thomson - American Atheists 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg
This is a video response to "Yes I am a positive atheist and here is why"
To see WayoftheBastard's original video, click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mQu74ZjjEY&fmt=18
Here is the problem of hiddenness
1 - If there is a perfectly loving God, all creatures capable of explicit and positively meaningful relationship with God who have not freely shut themselves off from God are in a position to participate in such relationships--i.e., able to do so just by trying to.
2 - No one can be in a position to participate in such relationships without believing that God exists.
3 - If there is a perfectly loving God, all creatures capable of explicit and positively meaningful relationship with God who have not freely shut themselves off from God believe that God exists (from 1 and 2).
4 - It is not the case that all creatures capable of explicit and positively meaningful relationship with God who have not freely shut themselves off from God believe that God exists: there is nonresistant nonbelief; God is hidden.
5 - It is not the case that there is a perfectly loving God (from 3 and 4).
6 - If God exists, God is perfectly loving.
7 - It is not the case that God exists (from 5 and 6).
Why We Believe in Gods - Andy Thomson - American Atheists 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iMmvu9eMrg
