Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Why I am not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

A collection of essays by Bertrand Russell. I should say I did not try to follow many of his arguments, I believe due mostly to my being tired for the moment; but those which I did follow, I found them to be in accord with my own convictions. I would like to remember one logical argument in particular that aptly counteracts the so-called first-cause argument (FCA) in favor of God's existence; the argument against FCA goes like this: "If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God...".

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