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Theories of God 3
Theories of God 3
ATHEIST
A- “no” or “without” is the one who denies
the existence of God.
THEOS “God”
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ATHEISM = NO-GOD-ISM
MATERIALISTS
• ITS EARLY ADVOCATES, CLAIM THAT MATTER IS THE ORIGIN OF ALL THINGS;
EVERYTHING COMES FROM MATTER AND EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO
MATTER.
MARXISTS
• MARXISTS BELIEVE THAT IN GOD-WORSHIP MAN
BECOMES ALIENATED NOT ONLY FROM HIMSELF BUT
ALSO FROM HIS FELLOWMEN AND FROM THE WORLD.
HOW? WHY?
1. MAN BECOME AN IN GOD-WORSHIP, MAN MAN IS EMPTIED OF
DOES EVERYTHING EVERYTHING HE HAS AND
ALIEN UNTO ACCORDING TO GOD’S POSSESS NOTHING AS HE
HIMSELF BY WILL. HE SURRENDERS HIS HAS TRANSFERRED OR
FREEDOM TO GOD. HE PROJECTED EVERYTHING TO
BELIEVING IN CONSIDERS GOD THE GOD. AS A RESULT, MAN HAS
GOD MASTER AND HIMSELF THE BECOME AN ALIEN, A SLAVE,
SLAVE. A STRANGER UNTO HIMSELF.
“HE CEASES TO BE HUMAN. IN SUCH SITUATION, MAN IS
DEAD AND GOD IS BORN.”
HOW? WHY?
2. MAN BECOME “PEOPLE HAVE BECOME GOD HAS BEEN THE
BITTER ENEMIES BECAUSE CAUSE OF DISUNITY
ALIENATED FROM OF THEIR RELIGIOUS RATHER THAN UNITY
OTHERS BY DOCTRINES.” AMONG MEN, AS MAN
NAG-AAWAY-AWAY ANG HAS PREFERRED TO LOVE
BELIEVING IN MGA TAO DAHIL LAMANG GOD RATHER THAN HIS
GOD SA KANILANG FELLOWMEN.
PANINIWALA SA DIYOS.
“FOR THIS REASON, THE MARXISTS SAY THAT GOD
MUST DIE IF MAN IS TO LIVE.”
HOW? WHY?
3. MAN BECOME IN GOD-WORSHIP, THE THE GOD-WORSHIPPER
BELIEVERS IS TOO HAS SO MUCH
ALIENATED FROM DEVOTED TO THE LIFE COMMITTED HIMSELF TO
THE WORLD BY HEREAFTER OR THE THE ‘KINGDOM COME’
WORLD TO LIVE THAT HE HAS FORGOTTEN
BELIEVING GOD AUTHENTICALLY WITH HIS HIS SOCIAL CONCERNS
FELLOWMEN IN THIS FOR OTHERS HERE AND
WORLD. NOW. HE IS TOO EAGER
TO ATTAIN BEATIFIC
VISION OF GOD TO LIVE
WELL WITH HIS FELLOWS.
“AS A RESULT, MAN HAS BECOME A STRANGER IN HIS
OWN PARADISE- THIS WORLD. HE BECOMES AN ALIEN
IN HIS OWN HOME- THE EARTH.”
ANG TAO AY NAGIGING DAYUHAN SA KANYANG
SARILING LUPA AT SARILING TAHANAN.
4. ARGUMENT FROM
FREEDOM
JEAN- PAUL SARTRE (1905-1985?)
• FRENCH EXISTENTIALIST, WHO PROFESSED THIS
TYPE OF ATHEIST.
HE FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO RECONCILE MAN AS
FREEDOM AND GOD AS CREATOR.
AS HE GROWS, HE AT THE
FIRST OF ALL, MAN SAME TIME DEVELOPS
EXISTS, HE IS BORN HIMSELF AND IN THE
WITHOUT ESSENCE. PROCESS HE IS
CREATING HIS ESSENCE.
MOTHER IS CONTENTMENT
MOTHER IS FOOD
• PARENTAL ATTACHMENT OF THE CHILD WHICH HE
DEVELOPS DURING HIS PROLONGED PERIOD OF
INFANCY BECOMES SO INGRAINED IN THE
SUBCONCIOUS MIND OF THE CHILD THAT EVEN
LONG AFTER HE IS WEANED FROM THE MOTHER
AND BECOMES AN ADULT, HE STILL LONGS FOR
SOME “MOTHER-FIGURES” THAT WOULD GIVE HIM
THE SAME SECURITY, CONTENTMENT, LOVE, SENSE
OF ROOTEDNESS AND BELONGING.
Sigmund Freud
• LIBIDO THEORY
• SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE REASON BEHIND
THIS SO-CALLED INCESTUOUS FIXATION
TO MOTHER
THESE MOTHER
FIGURES ASSUME THE
FUNCTION WHICH THE
THE FAMILY
INDIVIDUAL MOTHER
BLOOD RELATIVES OR KINSHIP HAD ORIGINALLY DONE
GROUP NARCISSISM FOR THE CHILD AND SO
TRIBALISM
MAN CLINGS TO THEM.
NEBULA THEORY
• Planets and other heavenly bodies were formed
by the condensation of a huge, vast, and diffused
solar atmosphere in the process of its
contraction.
(1) THE GOD HYPOTHESIS HAS THE GOD EXPLANATION HAS BECOME
BECOME INTELLECTUALY INTELLECTUALLY UNNECCESSARY.
SUPERFLUOUS