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More Christ Episode Eighty-Nine: Dr Spencer Klavan: C.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, & the Classical Education You've Been Missing

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The Evidence Doesn't Suit an Anthropomorphic God

Richard Backtop says the evidence doesn't suggest an anthropomorphic god as long as you define evidence to only include those things that don't suggest an Anthropomorphic god. Richard Backtop: If there is such a thing as one divine power or more than one force which we do see in nature then we're royally screwed because like there's really no way of absolute adjudicating between two absolute powers right and this leads to anarchy. He also argues that Nietzsche was wrong about Greek society when he said they were grateful for church coming along but it wasn't the church that came along and heaped the dirt on people. The real reason why some philosophers are so obsessed with Plato, Aristotle and Thales

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