Dr. J. Budziszewski

Well, you notice that they're assuming things about God that they can't know here.

They're assuming that the only reason anybody does believe in God is to comfort themselves, to make sense of what actually doesn't make sense.

then lewis we mentioned lewis he spears that that's the crutch idea right people believe in god because he's a crutch but um but lewis says well you know disbelief in god can be a crutch too and we all know lots of cases like that the philosopher thomas nagel once said in a book he said he admitted that the implications his argument you know strongly suggests that there could be a god he said this made him uncomfortable he said i don't believe in god

He said, some of the most intelligent people that I know do believe in God.

That makes me deeply uncomfortable.

He says, it's not just that I don't believe in God.

And of course I, I hope I'm not mistaken.

Everybody hopes he's not mistaken, but he says, I don't want the universe to be like that.

I don't want there to be God.

Now, now, um, um,

Back to the business about making things easier for yourself.

If you, to say people only believe in God to make life tolerable for themselves.

You really need to examine that and not just leap to the conclusion.

It's a genetic fallacy for one thing.

Because that's their motive for believing in God, God couldn't exist.

And in the second place, it isn't true anyway.

Sometimes people disbelieve in God in order to make the universe more tolerable to themselves.

Don't presuppose something about God or about belief in God.

Just look at the reasons for thinking that there is a God.

You know, it's if one...