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So, I'm not entirely sure why I get myself into conversations like this on Facebook. One of the people that I'm conversing with is my cousin..so I'm trying to keep my lack of faith kind of a secret...but it seems like everyone is all "let's point at the devil and evil for the school shootings!' It's really like a mob mentality.



I mean...I understand ...

A common conception of God by contemporary philosophers of religion is that he is a necessary being, meaning he exists in all possible worlds. St. Anselm's formulation of the ontological argument is one of the most famous argument's for the existence of God, and many philosophers since (such as Immanuel Kant) have accepted it as proving not that God exists, but that if such a being exists, it exists necessarily. The argument is essentially as follows:

1. Imagine the greatest* being ...

First off, I'm back! It's been a long time, yes, but I am now ready to post more.

I'm going to preface this by stating that I am an atheist. I think, as do many other philosophers, that the question is largely settled. Prominent philosophers of religion such as Keith Parsons (founder of the journal Philo, among other things) have actually decided to move on to other subfields.

However, for those who do not think the question is settled, or who simply find some ...

This post is not meant to be a comprehensive argument. Rather, it is a window into my developing thoughts.

An idea I've seen kicking around the philosophy world as of late is problems with the idea of God as a necessary being and the existence of evil. I've developed this idea a little further.

'God' as defended by serious philosophers is usually conceived of as an abstract being that exists necessarily. That is to say that God's existence is a fundamental feature of ...