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Books: Extract - Gary Cox's The God Confusion
What is God? Does he exist? Can we know? asks GARY COX in his new book The God Confusion. In this extract, he argues that the only valid philosophical response is to adopt the sceptical, agnostic viewpoint
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In medieval times, Western philosophy was more or less indistinguishable from Christian theology. It had become little more than a tool for advancing theological positions to the greater glory of a God that no sane person dared to doubt the existence of.
Today, many philosophers find philosophy an equally effective tool for advancing atheism.
My book does not evangelise for God and religion or for atheism, secularism and science. It simply explores in an objective and unbiased way what philosophers have said over the centuries about the idea and nature of God, his relationship to the world and his existence or non-existence.
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