Sublime

Basically, they argue that belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics. You see less education among women, less hedonism and individualism. And to a large degree, this belief in transcendence

Leibniz’s arguments for the existence of God are four in number; they are (1) the ontological argument, (2) the cosmological argument, (3) the argument from the eternal truths, (4) the argument from the pre-established harmony, which may be generalized into the argument from design, or the physico-theological argument, as Kant calls it.

Plantinga’s God and Other Minds is one of the best treatments of the problem of evil,

Kant initially argued that reason cannot establish the reality and nature of God, and then, in his Critique of Practical Reason, he went on to propose that it is only in moral experience that such knowledge can be grounded, for the knowledge we have of ourselves as moral beings is inexplicable

Rather than accept the evidentialists’ requirements by attempting to construct a traditional argument for Christianity, Plantinga challenged the entire notion of traditional proof as the primary basis for belief.

the faith of a man who has considered the very real possibility that chaos and bloodshed are simply all there is.

The point is not that you are the ultimate and independent cause of your actions; the point is that, for whatever reason, you have the mind of a regicide.

Sometimes doubting your doubts is the beginning of wisdom.