I find the argument that God does not make himself more obvious because it would conflict with our free will to choose him to be highly fishy.
Fishy indeed, given that he's supposedly done just that within the last couple of millenia. I suspect that if someone started performing the same kind of flashy miracles described in the gospels[1] today then (after, granted an initial period of skepticism) I imagine that many atheists would start to rethink.
[1] or perhaps those attributed to the saints, but they could more easily be dismissed as pious frauds, if necessary in order to maintain an argument about the invisibility of the Christian god.
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Date: 2006-09-11 12:07 pm (UTC)I find the argument that God does not make himself more obvious because it would conflict with our free will to choose him to be highly fishy.
Fishy indeed, given that he's supposedly done just that within the last couple of millenia. I suspect that if someone started performing the same kind of flashy miracles described in the gospels[1] today then (after, granted an initial period of skepticism) I imagine that many atheists would start to rethink.
[1] or perhaps those attributed to the saints, but they could more easily be dismissed as pious frauds, if necessary in order to maintain an argument about the invisibility of the Christian god.