- Abstract:
- In this paper, I argue that atheists who think that the issue of God's existence or non-existence is an important one; assign a greater than negligible probability to God's existence; and are not in possession of a plausible argument for scepticism about the truth-directedness of uttering such prayers in their own cases, are under a prima facie obligation to pray to God that He stop them being atheists.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Publisher:
- Springer Publisher's website
- Journal:
- International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Journal website
- Volume:
- 67
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 173-186
- Publication date:
- 2010-06-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1572-8684
- ISSN:
-
0020-7047
- URN:
-
uuid:badb6568-6237-4b00-9b65-f92227dacce3
- Local pid:
- ora:4024
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- Copyright holder:
- Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
- Copyright date:
- 2010
- Notes:
- Citation: Mawson, T. J. (2010). 'Praying to stop being an atheist', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67(3), 173-186.
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Praying to stop being an atheist
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