REL-1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ontological Argument, Presupposition, Polytheism
19 Aug 2017
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Chapter 12: truth messages: the conceptual expression of religion. God: virtually all religion affirms the reality of being, knowledge, and bliss greater than the human, and power to go with these attributes. To those who believe that god must be impersonal, personality is essential as a limitation. Personalities are really constructed out of various human desires, anxieties, defenses, and cosmic ignorance: god can be thought of in terms of personal monotheism, polytheism, which is the belief in many gods. It is really a matter of quality rather than quantity. A being that exists is greater than one who does not exist. Therefore god must exist: reason as a means of determining truth in religion has the advantage of seeming to be as independent as possible from emotion or bias. It is said to be cold and even inhuman; a poor basis for determining something as warmly human as religious commitment.
