50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God

by Harrison, Guy P.

• ISBN13: 9781591025672
• ISBN10: 1591025672
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-04-30
• Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS

Summary

Whether you're a believer, a complete skeptic, or somewhere in between, you'll find Harrison's review of traditional and more recent arguments for the existence of God refreshing, approachable, and enlightening.

Author Biography

Guy P. Harrison is a graduate of the University of South Florida with degrees in history and anthropology

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
My god is obvious	p. 17
Almost everybody on Earth is religious	p. 23
Faith is a good thing	p. 27
Archaeological discoveries prove that my god exists	p. 37
Only my god can make me feel significant	p. 45
Atheism is just another religion	p. 49
Evolution is bad	p. 57
Our world is too beautiful to be an accident	p. 65
My god created the universe	p. 71
Believing in my god makes me happy	p. 77
Better safe than sorry	p. 85
A sacred book proves my god is real	p. 91
Divine justice proves my god is real	p. 101
My god answers prayers	p. 107
I would rather worship my god than the devil	p. 117
My god heals sick people	p. 123
Anything is better than being an atheist	p. 131
My god made the human body	p. 139
My god sacrificed his only son for me	p. 147
Atheists are jerks who think they know everything	p. 153
I don't lose anything by believing in my god	p. 161
I didn't come from a monkey	p. 169
I don't want to go to hell	p. 175
I feel my god when I pray	p. 179
I need my god to protect me	p. 183
I want eternal life	p. 191
Without my god we would have no sense of right and wrong	p. 197
My god makes me feel like I am part of something bigger than myself	p. 207
My religion makes more sense than all the others	p. 213
My god changes lives	p. 221
Intelligent design proves my god is real	p. 225
Millions of people can't be wrong about my religion	p. 231
Miracles prove my god is real	p. 235
Religion is beautiful	p. 241
Some very smart people believe in my god	p. 247
Ancient prophecies prove my god exists	p. 251
No one has ever disproved the existence of my god	p. 263
People have gone to heaven and returned	p. 267
Religion brings people together	p. 273
My god inspires people	p. 281
Science can't explain everything	p. 287
Society would fall apart without religion	p. 295
My religion is so old, it must be true	p. 303
Someone I trust told me that my god is real	p. 309
Atheism is a negative and empty philosophy	p. 315
Believing in a god doesn't hurt anyone	p. 325
The earth is perfectly tuned to support life	p. 331
Believing is natural so my god must be real	p. 337
The end is near	p. 343
I am afraid of not believing	p. 349
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