The God Argument.

 Recently I've been reading A. C Grayling's 'The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism'. 

Whilst it's an intriguing argument and well written, it is a little irritating. Admittedly I'm only halfway through, but the supposition that religion and humanism cannot co-exist is rubbish. As is the assumption that the Bible, when not taken literally means that one must be an 'apologist'. At this rate might be needing an elephant size pooper-scooper.

However, pages 66 and 67 "...The standard arguments for the existence of God..." have me thinking. That's thinking - not leaping to conclusions and I'm sure these will crop up in some future blogs. So here they are as listed within the text:

Telological Argument.  The argument for design ('intelligent design' falls in here; puppy-poo-bag anyone? )
Ontological Argument. God exists by definition. 
Cosmology Argument. Attempts an empirical basis for the existence of God. "...the world cannot be it's own entity..." 
Moral Argument. There can not be morality unless there is a God. Yep, the favorite argument of fundamentalists. This is the one used to justify their zealot ideology, bigotry, homophobia, misogyny and even in some cases white supremacy. These people are not Christians, but rather use it to justify their lack of humanity, compassion and control issues.

So whilst I'm still mulling over these points, I'd like to hear read your thoughts on each of these points. Feel free to DM them to me via twitter @VacuousNess