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What Do You Think Young People Get Wrong About Religion and Belief in God
Young people in particular get wrong about religion and belief in god they imagine god as a competitive being the roots of that philosophically very interesting. I think it was Hitchens who said you know religious people believe that the world was like a cosmic North Korea there's this this terrible tyrant who's surveying things all the time and judging. God is not a being in Thomas Aquinas god is ipsum essay he's the sheer active to be he's sheer actuality and he's not competing therefore on the same ontological plane with creatures.