By Raymond D Bradley
Few can supply a more matured view on faith than Raymond Bradley. Having been raised as a ‘winner of souls for Christ’ within the Nineteen Forties, he spent the subsequent forty years as an atheist professor of philosophy and an outspoken critic/debater of religion.
Revered for his paintings in good judgment and his meticulous method of debate, God’s Gravediggers is Bradley’s coup de grâce to faith. A career’s worthy of labor on a subject matter which may rarely be extra very important. coming near near the ethical, logical and medical arguments – utilizing wealthy analogies, rational arguments and examples that non-academics may comprehend – he explores not just even if God exists, but in addition what harm the concept that of God does. A well timed ebook in an age of spiritual fundamentalism, hatred and conflict.
“Bradley doesn't gloss over tricky issues of common sense and reasoning. A excitement to read.”
Professor Graham Oppy, Chair of Council of the Australasian organization of Philosophy
“Bradley's uniqueness is good judgment and he brings that to undergo through the paintings. it's well-written and punctiliously soaking up. i've got not anything yet compliment for his project.”
Theodore Drange, Professor Emeritus, West Virginia University
“From a tender person's rejection of Christianity, to a mature philosopher's cogent critique of all religions. This compelling protection of atheism is a superb read.”
Professor Robert Nola, college of Auckland.
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And I go on to argue with respect to gods, that there’s a near zero probability that any of them actually exist. That brings us to Chapters 3 and 4, which lie at the very heart of my book, expanding as they do on my reasons for giving it the title GOD'S GRAVEDIGGERS. If you haven't time to read much else, read these chapters. An overview of the perspective that I eventually came to adopt, these chapters explain why I am an atheist, not a mere agnostic, about the gods: all gods. Thus Chapter 3, "Why God Deserves to Die: Intellectual and Moral Indictments”, concentrates on charges against the biblical god: the god God belief in whom is supposedly common to all three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
God's Foreknowledge and Predestination We didn't proceed further, to God's perfect goodness, because the concept of omniscience seized my attention. What exactly did his knowledge include? Did he know where my father had been all day? Did he know what I had been doing all day? "Yes, dear: God knows all that," she answered. At that point my mind kicked into gear. If God knew all that, did he also know what I would do tomorrow? " My head spun. If he knew what I was going to do tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that...
My moral argument for atheism is an argument for the nonexistence of any sort of revealed god, such as the Christian God in particular. Chapter 6, "The Logic of Hell and Damnation: Another Logical Quandary", narrows the focus of moral indictment. It demonstrates that the concept of the Christian God, as characterized by orthodox Christians including leading theologians and philosophers of that faith, is self-contradictory. It leads to the conclusion that the existence of such a god is not just wildly improbable but logically impossible.