Table of Contents

Prologue

Ch. 1--Examples of Faith Claims

 

(a) Using Faith as a Connection Between Experience and God

(b) God as a Criminal Against Humanity

(c) Faith Claims That Attempt to Answer Questions of Existence

(d) Why Should Christians have Faith in God?

(e) Faith in Miracles 

(f) Bible Stories

(g) Some Final Examples of Faith Claims

 

Ch. 2--The All Powerful Being

 

(a) Justifying the Prologue

(b) How "The all powerful being is a contradiction" is a synthetic a priori statement

(c) God as a Loving Parent

(d) God as a Criminal Against Humanity Revisited

(e) The Test Argument

(f) Self Causation

 

Ch. 3--Attacking Heaven

 

(a) Where is Heaven?

(b) The Soul Before Birth

(c) Christian Fear of the Death of the Soul

(d) Why Heaven Doesn't Exist

(e) The Soul as Another Word for Personality

Ch. 4--Physicalism (under construction)

 

(a) Problems in Physicalism

(b) Clarifying Topic-Neutral Properties 

(c) More Arguments for and Against Physicalism 

(d) Physicalism in the Final Analysis

 

Ch. 5--Why we are Here

 

(a) Reconciling Life as Necessity With Free Will

(b) Deterministic and Fatalistic Arguments Against Free Will

(c) Our Purpose and the Good

(d) Against Moral Relativism

 

Ch. 6--The Ontological Argument

 

(a) Three Classic Arguments for God's Existence: The Cosmological Proof

(b) The Teleological Proof

(c) The Ontological Proof

 

Ch. 7--The Problem With Mary (under construction)

 

(a) God Did it

(b) Comparisons to the Salem Witch Trials

(c) Mary, the Deceiving Manipulator

(d) Jesus, the Charasmatic Leader of a Cult

(e) Analysis of the Christmas Story in the Gospels

(f) Comparisons to Johnny Cochran

(g) The Plausibility of this Theory

 

Ch. 8--Creation (under construction)

 

Ch. 9 God and Faith in Sports (under construction)

 

Ch. 10--Marriage and Ceremony (under construction)

 

Ch. 11--Morality (under construction)

 

Ch. 12--The War Against Christianity and Death-2 unrelated topics (under construction)

 

Ch. 13: Epilogue--The Future of Christianity (under construction)