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Atheism and the Problem of Evil (view source)
Revision as of 15:59, November 27, 2015
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Atheism can't make any sense of it.<ref>[http://www.str.org/articles/evil-as-evidence-for-god#.VOyKDrbhi1s Evil as Evidence for God ]</ref>}}
Atheism can't make any sense of it.<ref>[http://www.str.org/articles/evil-as-evidence-for-god#.VOyKDrbhi1s Evil as Evidence for God ]</ref>}}
== Argument from evil and gratitude ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and gratitude|Atheism and ingratitude]]
[[Image:Wm Dembski.jpg|right|thumbnail|[[William Dembski]]]]
The book ''Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy'' which was edited by [[William Dembski]] and Michael R. Licona declares:
{{cquote|The real power of the argument from evil is that it can destroy a person’s gratitude. If we focus all of our attention on the bad things in our world, we come to see it as a place of nothing but misery, disease, and bloodshed. (I’ve read many atheistic writings that describe the world in such terms.) When we become, as [[G. K. Chesterton]] would put it, “Cosmic Pessimists,” our gratitude doesn’t shift from God to something else. Our gratitude simply dies.
How we view the world, then, can have a massive impact on our religious views. I would say that a person who looks at the world and sees nothing but pain and death has missed out on a truly amazing place. As a blissful young pagan, Chesterton set out to found his own religion. He eventually became a theist and a Christian, a process which had much to do with his sense of gratitude...
Theists see a universe full of gifts under the Christmas tree. Until atheists offer a reasonable explanation for our marvelous world, it was always seem to theists that atheists have much to be thankful for..."<ref>''Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy'' edited by [[William Dembski]] and Michael R. Licona. pages 46-47</ref>}}
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