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- Absence of proof is not proof of absence
- Abstract objects can be conceptually demonstrated
- According to religious texts, God is the creator of all things.
- According to the Bible, man alone possesses free will, and with it the ability to do evil.
- All left-wing parties are relatively pro-immigration
- All religions teach the goodness of God
- Alleged mystical experiences are made-up stories
- An argument from authority is not proof
- An election campaign followed by an election are combined with a draw.
- An exceptional meteorological phenomenon
- Apart from very rare (and short-lived) exceptions, all societies have a spiritual dimension.
- Argument from authority
- Arguments for the existence of God are all argumentative biases
- As long as we're not personally affected, we're not going to change anything.
- As they develop, human beings undergo transcendent experiences
- Atheism doesn't account for first cause
- Atheism is based on an outdated reductionist vision of the universe and science.
- Atheists have never claimed that the laws of physics are self-forming or that energy needs no incidental cause.
- Atonement for a sin has always been the motive for massacring the innocent
B
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- Cases described as demonic possessions are now seen as simple mental disorders.
- Chance alone cannot explain the creation, adaptation and complexity of species
- Chance is a complex set of causes, so it's not improbable.
- Claims of divine intervention are based on unreliable evidence
- Clergy live in luxury
- Consciousness doesn't exist
- Consciousness is an emerging property of the brain
- Consciousness is not clearly defined
- Consciousness is the reflection of an impersonal Absolute
- Considering paranormal phenomena as real does not prove the existence of God
- Contemplating nature
- Contemplating sacred art
D
E
- Ecosia is an alternative to Google
- Employers and urban bourgeoisie want immigration
- Enables greater public participation in political life.
- Even a "normal" brain becomes "delusional" when subjected to stress of the kind that causes IMEs.
- Even if the phenomenon has a divine origin, the deities to whom these transcendences are attributed vary.
- Even if the testimonies have not been rigorously collected, they are sufficient to establish that an extraordinary phenomenon has occurred.
- Evil can lead to the worst horrors
- Evil is due to a cosmic accident unforeseen by God
- Evolution produces morality because it obeys divine will
- Explanation by chance is even more inexplicable than explanation by God
- Extraordinary claims require more than ordinary proof
F
- Faced with the world, we can also be subjectively certain that God doesn't exist, that everything is absurd...
- Faith is just a cognitive mechanism
- Faith is only a vindication of our own cognitive biases
- Faith only serves to disguise a lack of evidence
- Fatima is a legend, nothing happened
- Fear of God's judgment is the cornerstone of Christian morality
- France has a lot of rural areas that are empty or too old, and we need to repopulate them.
G
- God created eternal hell
- God doesn't give people the freedom not to believe, since he punishes unbelievers.
- God doesn't know the future
- God is a contradictory concept
- God is a simple being
- God is an invention
- God is in man's image because man is in God's image
- God is not an abstract object, for he is the cause of events in the world.
- God is supposed to be omnipotent
- God is supposed to be omnipotent, therefore able to communicate messages without using evil
- God is supposed to be omniscient
- God is used to deny the evolution of species, so he can't be the cause.
- God may very well be anthropomorphic, even if this is hardly credible.
- God needs conflict to advance his plan in history
- God wanted man
- God's answers to prayer
- God's existence can be ascertained through mystical experience
- God's existence is revealed in sacred texts
- God's so-called representatives on earth don't always lead by example
- God's visions
- Good triumphs in the end
H
- Hans Jonas' quote on God's incomprehensible goodness
- Human beings aspire to infinite love
- Human existence is no match for God
- Human freedom" as we observe it can perfectly well be seen as the result of biological and social forces alone.
- Human language emerges from animal communication
- Human language is a product of Darwinian evolution
- Human life is absurd
- Human nature aspires to God
- Hypnosis
I
- If God cannot be proven, he is an irrational object
- If order were a projection of the human mind, scientific prediction would be impossible.
- If Providence existed, it would prevent many unjust events.
- If the world were chaotic, there would be no language to talk about it.
- If we don't boost the birth rate, we'll have to bring in millions of migrants.
- IMEs are like dreams
- Immigration promotes multiculturalism, which is a plus for a society and human progress.
- Immigration strengthens the proletariat and left-wing forces
- Impossible, that presupposes a god in two times: that of creation and that of profit, but god is not in time.
- In theocratic regimes, the elites are corrupt.
- Inedias (saints who live without eating) prove the existence of God
- Insufficient understanding of a phenomenon
- It is not within the scientific community.
- It just proves a universal need to believe in a higher entity, not its existence.
- It's a cheap New Age recovery to claim that contemporary science is tending towards spirituality.
- It's a collective hallucination
- It's a mental projection to make the pain more bearable.
- It's a UFO phenomenon
- It's all too easy to twist biblical accounts to cover up inconsistencies.
- It's easy to imagine a better world in some respects
- It's impossible to be on the left and reject others who are disadvantaged
- It's impossible to verify that our world is the best it can be
- It's more rational to admit our ignorance than to invent an explanation out of nowhere.
M
- Made-up stories
- Man follows his interests and impulses, and moral duty cannot be reduced to either.
- Man is not truly free but inclined to evil
- Manifestations of Providence are mere coincidences on which a religious interpretation is projected.
- Many children also report IMEs, so we can't accuse them of trying to "sell" something.
- Many cosmological models postulate that the universe did not have an absolute beginning, and was therefore not created by God.
- Many people believe in God, including famous scientists
- Many religious explanations have been replaced by scientific ones.
- Many renowned scientists confess their perplexity and tend towards a spiritualist vision of the universe in the face of contemporary discoveries.
- Mass immigration is a by-product of unbridled liberalism and globalization
- Mathematical theories of probability show that fine-tuning the laws of the universe is relatively probable
- Mathematics comes from observing the world
- Mathematics exists in a reality independent of matter
- Mathematics is a human invention for understanding the world
- Mathematics was created to describe reality, hence its coincidence
- Mega-churches make huge profits by manipulating their congregations
- Members of the clergy are regularly caught up in sex scandals.
- Mental projection designed to make evil bearable
- Miracles are paranormal phenomena that do not imply the existence of God.
- Miracles are rare natural phenomena that can be explained by science.
- Miraculous healings prove the existence of God
- MIVILUDES classifies the practice of inedience as a sectarian aberration
- Moral duty often clashes with the biological interest of species
- Moral invariants are the result of evolution
- Moral values are relative to a given society
- Moral values are the result of evolution
- Moral values evolve over time
- More births are needed to boost the economy
- Most Christians do not believe in reincarnation
- Most experimenters have tucked away their experience for years and haven't benefited from it.
- Most mystics have directly perceived that all is well.
- Mystical experiences are misinterpretations of what we perceive.
- Mystical experiences attest to the existence of the unity of all things, not the God of religions.
- Mystical experiences touch an invisible reality; they are intersubjective and go beyond mere subjectivity.
N
- National identity corresponds to a country's mentality or national character.
- National identity corresponds to national mores
- National identity expresses a country's vision
- National identity is a dangerous populist fantasy
- National identity is based on a common language and culture
- National identity is fluid and constantly redefined
- National identity is simply the sum of a country's inhabitants at a given time.
- National identity is the soul of the country
- National identity stems from history
- Nature could not endow man with a need without an object
- Nature is cruel
- Nature is merely the product of physical and biochemical mechanisms
- Nature is too well-made not to have been created by God
- Near-death experiences show an invisible reality
- Near-death experiences show consciousness independent of the brain
- Not all believers who do evil are punished
- Nothing makes these people credible: they may be mistaken, or even lie.
- Nothing proves the non-existence of God
- Notions of Good and Evil mean nothing to the universe
O
P
- Parapsychology is a pseudoscience
- Parapsychology laboratories are contested in the scientific community
- Parapsychology shows unknown powers of the brain
- Particularly unlikely events that influence the course of history
- People have always sought a national identity
- Perfection is a mental projection
- Physical laws are consequences of the properties of matter
- Police are fascists
- Police protect citizens
- Police violence is not a blunder but a normal part of police work.
- Psychokinesis
R
- Reincarnation is the only explanation for unjust and inexplicable suffering.
- Religions come together
- Religions contradict each other
- Religious answers will always be more biased than scientific ones
- Religious people have no problem judging God positively when it feeds their belief in a just world.
- Remote viewing
- Revelations in sacred texts come from invisible beings who are not God.
- Revelations show that the Creator is interested in human beings
S
- Sacred art is merely a mental projection of the artists or their patrons.
- Sacred texts are the creation of human beings
- Sacred texts are written by men
- Sade's hypothesis is more provocative than theologically validated
- Sartre's existentialists believe in freedom and deny the existence of God
- Science has never claimed to have all the answers.
- Science will never be able to explain certain fundamental phenomena such as life or consciousness.
- Scientific predictions show that the world conforms to laws
- Several left-wing parties and governments are relatively opposed to immigration
- Shamanic experience shows the existence of invisible realities
- Signs" are merely anodyne events interpreted in hindsight as warnings.
- Since God is all-powerful, there's no reason why he can't be evil and unjust.
- Since God is seen as proof of the non-existence of evolution, he cannot serve as an explanation for it.