The passage of Hans Kung's book Does God Exist: An Answer For Today, which I gave over the past week in response to a demand that I post a proof of God's existence is hardly the whole of Kung's argument to convince people of some excellent reasons to believe in God. It goes on from there for quite a while. It is only the part of it that demonstrates that a belief in God is supportive of a belief in the significance of human perception of reality, of human reason, reasons for human beings to be confident in our experience of life and our ability to understand it. Those are all things which are proven to be damaged by atheism when it is followed to its logical conclusions as is the pretense of scientistic atheism, the kind which almost every modern atheist either practices or would like to be taken as practicing. The list of eminent atheist scientists and philosophers who attack even the most basic validity of our minds is a long one. It was that expressed on a popular level in the statement "science has proven that free will doesn't exist" on a then popular, now ever more obscure lefty blog which began my long investigation into the political consequences of scientistic, materialistic atheism and how it has damaged and discredited the egalitarian democratic left. The list of such atheist scientist-philosophers, even many of them taken as lefties, who have attacked the ideas of equality and democracy are, is also a long one.
Since it is so useful to the purpose of this blog, I'm giving links to all of the parts of the argument I typed out and posted. It would be best to read them in Kung's book with its exhaustive examination of scientistic modernism and going on to parts of his excellent arguments for choosing to believe in God which I can't type out.
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