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- A God in the image of man is too human to be credible
- A God who is not omnipotent is not God
- A Google search consumes less CO2 than an Ecosia search
- A necessary being can only give rise to a contingent universe
- A paranormal concept ceases to qualify as such as soon as science validates it.
- A universe made from nothing is possible, says Lawrence Krauss
- 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.
- Affective contagions require conditions that were not present at all at Fatima.
- After 7 years of investigation, the Church has officially recognized the Fatima phenomenon.
- All contenders for the One million dollar paranormal challenge have failed
- 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
- An immaterial point is an abstraction, and an abstraction cannot cause anything.
- Animal suffering is not comparable to human suffering
- Animal suffering is unjust
- Animals don't suffer
- Animals only suffer because some of their actions are intentional.
- Animals suffer because of Original Sin
- Apart from very rare (and short-lived) exceptions, all societies have a spiritual dimension.
- Argument from authority
- Argument test 2
- Arguments in favor of miracles are always more improbable than rational explanations.
- Arguments in favor of the existence of God are just as much in favor of the existence of parody religions.
- 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- Atheism is based on an outdated reductionist vision of the universe and science.
- Atheism posits a primordial energy whose origin it can never explain.
- Atheists also put forward a thesis
- Atheists claim that the universe before the Planck Wall is impossible to describe, not that it came out of "nothing".
- 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
- Awakening experiences show that there is no god
B
- Because God is a simple Being, he needs no explanation.
- Because the universe is contingent, it has a cause
- Before you can explain a phenomenon, you must first prove that it exists.
- Being a scientist doesn't make you immune to obscurantism
- Belief in God can be a rational gamble
- Belief spreads through human teaching, not divine communication
- Believing in no way protects you from going to hell if you adhere in good faith to "bad" beliefs.
- Bets on God's existence are based on arbitrary assumptions
- Beware of analogies used to show the existence of a god
- Biblical miracles have a rational explanation
- By the same reasoning, we should be led to believe in the existence of teapots orbiting the Sun.
C
- Can be used to elect a constituent assembly and/or an assembly to replace the senate.
- Cases described as demonic possessions are now seen as simple mental disorders.
- Causality is not linked to temporal succession
- Certain future explanations of science are taking shape that run counter to materialism.
- Chance alone cannot explain the creation, adaptation and complexity of species
- Chance is a complex set of causes, so it's not improbable.
- Christic visions are due to pareidolia
- Claims of divine intervention are based on unreliable evidence
- Clergy live in luxury
- Collective hallucination has never been observed in thousands of people.
- Comparing God to man is a legitimate analogy in a certain sense.
- Compassion has no meaning for God
- Consciousness cannot be explained by matter
- 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
- Considering that God is the first cause explains nothing
- Contemplating nature
- Contemplating sacred art
- Contemporary science is shaking the philosophical foundations on which materialism rests.
- Creation ex-nihilo
D
E
- Ecosia fights deforestation
- Enables greater public participation in political life.
- European countries need the values conveyed by Muslims
- Even a "normal" brain becomes "delusional" when subjected to stress of the kind that causes IMEs.
- Even if matter is no longer represented as it was in the classical age, this does not mean that it was created by God.
- 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.
- Even the church's morality isn't set in stone
- Even the hypothesis of reincarnation does not remove the unjust character
- Events interpreted as divine punishment are not consistent with alleged religious morality
- Everything has a cause, and God in particular
- Everything that exists has a reason to exist
- Evil is due to a cosmic accident unforeseen by God
- Evolution produces morality because it obeys divine will
- Existence is not a predicate
- 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 fraud
- 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.
- France is already overpopulated
G
- God cannot be less free than human beings
- God created a morality independent of men
- God created eternal hell
- God did not create evil, which exists from all eternity.
- God doesn't give people the freedom not to believe, since he punishes unbelievers.
- God doesn't know the future
- God exists because there cannot be an infinite number of causes
- God explains the appearance of life
- God explains the emergence and complexity of human language
- God explains the existence of consciousness
- God explains the highly improbable adjustment of the universe's fundamental constants
- God explains the laws of nature
- God gives an account of the world's master plan
- God gives men their freedom
- God is a filler concept
- God is a simple being
- God is described as all-powerful, but paradoxically endowed with typically human flaws.
- God is everlasting
- God is in man's image because man is in God's image
- God is not all-powerful
- God is not an abstract object, for he is the cause of events in the world.
- God is precisely defined by the being that is by itself, and is therefore its own cause: existence itself.
- 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 supposed to be the creator of all things, which contradicts human freedom.
- God is the cause of the existence of beings
- God is the central creature of the universe. Without Him, nothing would be existent.
- God is timeless, therefore causeless
- God is too complex a hypothesis
- 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 permits evil because of freedom
- God wanted man
- God would then be unjust, because too many people who have done nothing wrong would be punished.
- God's answers to prayer
- God's existence can be ascertained through mystical experience
- God's existence cannot be grasped through evidence
- God's existence is revealed in sacred texts
- God's perfection does not imply his existence
- God's visions
- God's visions are subjective interpretations
- God, in evolution, needs conflict to become self-aware
- Good and evil mix
- Good triumphs in the end
H
- Hallucinations are accompanied by a very active electroencephalogram, whereas IMEs can take place with a flat EEG.
- Hallucinations are very diverse, but IMEs always follow a similar scenario.
- Hallucinations often generate anxiety, IMEs lead to serenity
- Hans Jonas' quote on God's incomprehensible goodness
- Having the opportunity to suffer makes great good possible
- History has no meaning
- Human beings aspire to infinite love
- 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
- Hypnosis
- Hypnosis is not a paranormal phenomenon
I
- If God cannot be proven, he is an irrational object
- If God existed, there should be clear evidence of it.
- If God is omniscient, creation and freedom are useless
- 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 universe has no cause, then it is not necessary for it to exist.
- If the world were chaotic, there would be no language to talk about it.
- If we bet that freedom exists, we must bet on God.
- IME memories are stronger and more coherent than those of imagined events
- IMEs affect normal personalities who are not delusional.
- IMEs are influenced by the surrounding culture
- IMEs are like dreams
- IMEs have an underlying structure that is stable across cultures and environments
- IMEs show the existence of an invisible reality in our ordinary state
- Immigration is contrary to the interests of French workers and immigrants themselves.
- 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 essence, existence implies temporality
- 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 just a sign of imperfect medical knowledge
- It's logically irrational to say that God doesn't exist
- It's more rational to admit our ignorance than to invent an explanation out of nowhere.
- It's not chance but natural selection that explains the creation, adaptation and complexity of species.