My Kind of Atheist robin hanson

My Kind of Atheist

robin hanson

Citation (APA): hanson, r. (2018). My Kind of Atheist [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com

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Parte introduttiva

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My Kind of Atheist By robin hanson

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what kind of an “atheist” or “agnostic” I am.

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SCOPO DEL POST

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it isn’t at all crazy to think that very powerful beings exist

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PUNTO DI PARTENZA

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If those powerful beings count as “gods”, then I’m certainly open to the idea that such gods exist

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QUINDI...

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emotional appeal of religion is the idea that gods often “answer” prayer by intervening in their world.

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TUTTAVIA...LA RELIGIONE TRADIZIONALE

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It is these sort of prayer-answering “gods” in which I just can’t believe.

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IL DIO AMORE

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These sort of gods supposedly intervene in our world millions of times daily to respond positively to particular prayers,

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EPPURE NOI NN RIUSCIAMO A NOTARLO...IMPOSSIBILE

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history of life and civilization shows no obvious traces of their influence.

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PURTROPPO

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terrible things that go wrong in our world,

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IL PROBLEMA DEL MALE

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yes somewhere in that space is a subspace of minds who would behave in exactly this manner, if they were powerful enough to count as “gods”. But the relative size of that subspace seems to me rather small,

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TESI

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the fact that people claim to feel that gods answer their prayers is, all else equal, evidence for that hypothesis. But the other obvious hypothesis to consider here is that people claim this because it comforts them to believe so, not because they’ve carefully studied their evidence.

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OBIEZIINI RESPINTE

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socially functional to believe

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IN PASSATO LA FEDE ERA GIUSTIFICATA

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In conclusion, it isn’t crazy to think there are powerful gods far away in space or time, and perhaps close but far in causal connection. But it does seem to me crazy to believe in gods nearby who favorably answer prayers,

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CONCLUSIONE

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IL NOME DI QS POSIZIONE

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Prayer-atheists