An edition of But Is It Real?
(2008)
But Is It Real?
by Amy Orr-Ewing
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Table of Contents
But is it real?; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1. What about other people's genuine experience of God?; Buddhism; Christianity; Islam; Tolerance; Arrogance; Exclusion; 2. Your 'experience of God' is delusional, not real; God
a delusion?; Science dispensing with God; Religion and evidence; God as a virus of the brain; Conclusion; 3. Your relationship with God is just a psychological crutch; God as a psychological projection; God as talisman; Only for the weak and inferior; 4. How can you say you have found the truth if you haven't tried all the alternatives?
Logical positivismSearching for truth; Intolerance; An accident of birth; 5. If Christianity is about A relationship with God, why does he let bad things happen to his friends?; Naturalism; Eastern philosophy; Islam; Christianity; If I am suffering, is it because I have sinned?; Persecution; Suffering in the cause of justice; A time of trial; Why doesn't God always intervene?; 6. If Christianity is about a transforming relationship with God, why are Christians so bad?; Why do Christians sometimes fail so spectacularly?; What does my life say about me?
7. If God is so loving and relational, why did he go ahead and create when he knew people would end up in hell?Justice and judgment; Retribution and revenge; Is hell disproportionate?; Sacrifice; Christ the victor; Ransom; Justification; 8. Belief in God is dangerous; What kind of God don't you believe in?; Belief in God as cruelty to the self; The death of God; Fundamentalism; Tolerare malus; 9. I used to believe, but I've given it all up; 'I've grown out of it. I'm more sophisticated now'; 'I don't believe it's true any more'; Searching for truth; The resurrection of Jesus; Encounter.
'I drifted away''I struggle with Christian ideas about sex'; The most important reason to return; 10. How can I know?; Is it all in the mind?; But can we really know anything?; Immanuel Kant; Relational knowledge; Blaise Pascal; Notes; Chapter 1: What about other people's genuine experience of God?; Chapter 2: Your 'experience of God' is delusional, not real; Chapter 3: Your relationship with God is just a psychological crutch; Chapter 4: How can you say you have found the truth if you haven't tried all the alternatives?
Chapter 5: If Christianity is about a relationship with God, why does he let bad things happen to his friends?Chapter 6: If Christianity is about a transforming relationship with God, why are Christians so bad?; Chapter 7: If God is so loving and relational, why did he go ahead and create when he knew people would end up in hell?; Chapter 8: Belief in God is dangerous; Chapter 9: I used to believe, but I've given it all up; Chapter 10: How can I know?
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