No God, No Knowledge; Know God, Know Knowledge
Written by Ajit Krishna Dasa
How do we, as devotees of Krishna, figure out what an atheist – and what atheism – really is?
-Do we search the internet?
-Do we arm wrestle about it?
-Do we just think really hard about it?
-Do we consult a dictionary?
-Do we ask an atheist?
-Do we make an online survey?
No, of course not. As devotees we look to sastra for an answer. Interestingly enough sastra says that there are no atheists!
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Both the existence of truth itself and the existence of the concept of truth (i.e. the idea in our mind that statements and beliefs can express propositions that correspond to reality) cannot be accounted for in the absence of God.
Why is that?
Continue reading “Atheism Cannot Account for the Concept of Truth”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
When debating the existence of God atheists often claim that they do not have to lift a burden of proof. They argue that since atheism is nothing but the absence of belief in God it does not make any positive claims about the non-existence of God, and thus atheists have nothing to substantiate or justify when debating the existence of God.
Let us examine their claim carefully:
Continue reading “Atheism, Theism and the Burden of Proof”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Q: “Why should I think that I need to know if God exists?”
All humans are scared of ignorance. Why? Because ignorance might propel us into a condition of suffering. Thus, to counteract suffering all humans seek the opposite of ignorance, namely knowledge.
Continue reading “Why should I think I need to know if God exists?”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Atheism is non-existent because it is self-contradictory, the reason being that God and theism must first be accepted in order to argue in favor of atheism.
How is that?
The reason is that atheism cannot account for the universally existent and necessary preconditions of human cognition and intelligibility on which itself and all other wordviews are built. Now, what are these preconditions? Here follows a list of some of the most important ones:
Continue reading “The Non-Existence of Atheism”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
An interesting and persuasive argument for the existence of God is The Moral Argument. The argument can be presented as follows. Continue reading “The Moral Argument for the Existence of God”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Atheists commonly argue against the existence of God by claiming that theists only believe in God due to psychological reasons. For example, Sigmund Freud, founder of the psychoanalytical school of psychiatry, claimed that religious belief is an obsessional neurosis, that God is nothing more than a psychological crutch, an illusion, a form of wishful thinking caused by human weakness.
Continue reading “Is God a Psychological Crutch?”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Some atheists claim that the universe could have manifested uncaused from literally nothing. Therefore, they say, God is not necessary as an explanation for the existence of the universe.
But as we shall see this idea, that the universe could come from nothing, is self-contradictory. Continue reading “Did the Universe Come From Nothing?”
By Ajit Krishna Dasa
Did the universe create itself?
Quite a few atheists put forward the claim that the universe could have created itself and therefore doesn’t need a God as an explanation for its existence. However, a closer look this claim reveals that it’s self-contradictory.
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