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- Proposition P1: If the Christian God exists, then GodWorld is the unique best possible world.
- Proposition P2: If GodWorld is the unique best possible world, then the Christian God would maintain GodWorld.
- Proposition P3: GodWorld is false because the Universe (or any non-God object) exists.
- Conclusion: Therefore, the Christian God, as so defined, does not exist.
- God is omniscient.
- God is omnipotent.
- God wants everyone to believe in him.
- Since God is omniscient, he knows exactly what demonstration would convince any given person that he exists.
- Since God is omnipotent, he is capable of performing this demonstration.
- Since God wants everyone to believe in him, he wants to perform this demonstration.
- However, atheists manifestly exist.
- Therefore, the god described by the first three conditions does not exist.
1. If God exists, then he is perfect.
2. If God exists, then he is the creator of the universe.
3. A perfect being can have no needs or wants.
4. If any being created the universe, then he must have had some need or want.
5. Therefore, it is impossible for a perfect being to be the creator of the universe (from 3 and 4).
6. Hence, it is impossible for God to exist (from 1, 2, and 5).
- Any god who wanted all humans to follow him/her would have revealed themselves to all humans at once, not just one culture or race at a time.
- If rewards and punishment are given for belief and nonbelief respectively, then any god who waits hundreds or thousands of years before revealing itself to humans is unfair, since the people who lived and died before this revelation didn't have a chance to believe.
- If believers are rewarded for their belief then it is unfair for only a specific group of people to receive more evidence than others.
- And vice versa: if nonbelief is punished then it is also unfair for some people to receive less evidence than others (or no evidence at all).
- Any religion that strongly reflects the beliefs and thoughts of the time in which it was created is not the "true" one.