Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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God 16 - Have Atheists Got It So Wrong?
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Atheism as an overall mindset clearly makes no sense. We’re here; we exist; so some generative force created us.
But is that generative force the same as the one which put THIS place into existence and facilitated our incarnation into it? This is where the atheistic view that there is no BENEVOLENT “God” who loves us and simply wants the best for us at least becomes understandable.
This can be deduced simply through personal experience, and the futility of “prayer” becomes one of the main pieces of evidence. if prayer worked, why has the world ALWAYS been in a state of suffering, conflict, war, pain and fear, in spite of the billions who would have asked and willed for it to be another way? *
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But is that generative force the same as the one which put THIS place into existence and facilitated our incarnation into it? This is where the atheistic view that there is no BENEVOLENT “God” who loves us and simply wants the best for us at least becomes understandable.
This can be deduced simply through personal experience, and the futility of “prayer” becomes one of the main pieces of evidence. if prayer worked, why has the world ALWAYS been in a state of suffering, conflict, war, pain and fear, in spite of the billions who would have asked and willed for it to be another way? *
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Atheism as an overall mindset clearly makes no sense. We’re here; we exist; so some generative force created us.
But is that generative force the same as the one which put THIS place into existence and facilitated our incarnation into it? This is where the atheistic view that there is no BENEVOLENT “God” who loves us and simply wants the best for us at least becomes understandable.
This can be deduced simply through personal experience, and the futility of “prayer” becomes one of the main pieces of evidence. if prayer worked, why has the world ALWAYS been in a state of suffering, conflict, war, pain and fear, in spite of the billions who would have asked and willed for it to be another way? *
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But is that generative force the same as the one which put THIS place into existence and facilitated our incarnation into it? This is where the atheistic view that there is no BENEVOLENT “God” who loves us and simply wants the best for us at least becomes understandable.
This can be deduced simply through personal experience, and the futility of “prayer” becomes one of the main pieces of evidence. if prayer worked, why has the world ALWAYS been in a state of suffering, conflict, war, pain and fear, in spite of the billions who would have asked and willed for it to be another way? *
To e-mail on any matter:
[email protected]
Details of all upcoming events:
www.djmarkdevlin.com/events/
Become one of my Patreon supporters and get access to exclusive content here:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=113137448
Subscribe to my Substack page here:
https://markdevlinuk.substack.com/
To support my output through Buy Me A Coffee:
https://buymeacoffee.com/markdevlin
To support me via a Paypal.com donation, find me at paypal.com under the e-mail address [email protected]
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