A Perfect Being Can Exist

1. Knowledge of God This is my simple argument; the argument of non-cognitivism: I. There are three attributes of existents which concern us particularly, these being: A. Primary Attributes - The basic nature a particular thing is composed of. What a thing is, specifically, that it may do particular things or affect those around it in a particular way. The following two types of attributes provided below can only be applied to a thing if they can be related to an existent"s primary attribute and the primary attribute is positively identified B. Secondary Attributes - Character traits or abilities a particular thing may enact or possess. examples: being generous, kind, powerful, wise C. Relational Attributes " What we associate with the character. For example, in the case of President Obama, the fact that he is the President of the United States is an example of a relational attribute. II. B as well as C are dependent upon and must be related to an existent"s A in order to be considered meaningful. III. The term "God" lacks a positively identified A. IV. Because of this, the term "God" holds no justified A, B, or C. (From III) V. However, an attribute-less term (a term lacking A, B, and C) is meaningless. VI. Therefore, the term "God" is meaningless. (From IV, V, and VI) VII. Therefore, the god concept is invalid.1 We have to know what God is before we can prove its existence. "Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faithis beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request forthe meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge."2 God cannot be proven until he is described. Think of it another way. God is typically defined as something like: "Almighty, eternal, holy, immortal, immense, immutable, incomprehensible, ineffable, infinite, invisible, just, loving, merciful, most high, most wise, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, patient, perfect, provident, supreme, true."3 If God is incomprehensible and ineffable, how can the other attributes of God be known if he can neither be understood nor described? Therefore: 1. Anything with contradictory attributes cannot exist. 2. God has contradictory attributes 3. Therefore, God cannot exist.4 2. Demographics of God"s Belief 1. If the demographics of Theism are better explained by Atheism than Theism, then the demographics of Theism make Atheism more plausible than Theism. 2. The demographics of Theism are better explained by Atheism than Theism. 3. Therefore, Atheism is more plausible than Theism. We can begin by making some simple observations: 1. There are many more Muslims than Christians in the Middle East 2. There are many more Hindus in India than in the rest of the world 3. In the ancient world, every culture had its own mythology. 4. In fact, these mythologies often contradicted each other and varied wildly.5, 6, 7 "God" seems to be just a social protocol that depends on the particular race/country/region of the people who practice it. It is not one coherent belief, and should be discarded as such. 3. The Problem of Evil Here is it in its simplest form: 1. If God exists, unjustified evil does not exist 2. Unjustified evil does exist 3. Therefore, God does not exist.8 Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot, or he can but does not want to, or he cannot and does not want to, or lastly he can and wants to. If he wants to remove evil, and cannot, he is not omnipotent; If he can, but does not want to, he is not benevolent; If he neither can nor wants to, he is neither omnipotent nor benevolent; But if God can abolish evil and wants to, how does evil exists? God cannot exist if there is evil. Works Cited: 1 http://debate.org... 2 Smith, G. "Atheism: The Case Against God" 3 National Catholic Almanac (1968), p. 360. 4 http://www.infidels.org... 5 http://www.state.gov... 6 http://censusindia.gov.in... 7 http://www.mythweb.com... 8 Tobin, P. "The Rejection of Pascal"s Wager: The Skeptic"s Guide to Christianity." http://www.debate.org...