Exam 2: Religion

Which type of people did Albert Einstein say "develop a completely false notion of the mentality of men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world for centuries"?

Pascal's wager is in favor of __________.

Kant argued that the belief in God was __________.

According to Kant and others, the importance of God in Western thought is His role as the source of our __________.

Give Anselm's version of the ontological argument for the existence of God and Descartes's revision of that argument. Then explain Kant's attack on the argument. Do you agree with Kant that existence is not a predicate? Can you think of any other apparent predicates that are not actual predicates? If existence is a special case, why?

__________ made the pragmatic argument that believing in God was "rational" insofar as it didn't conflict with our other beliefs and it tended to make us lead better lives.

The __________, "Song of God" (ca. 200 BCE), is the most important of the many Hindu sacred texts.

__________ argued that objective faith means a sum of dogmas.

In Kant's view, God cannot be the object of any possible experience because He possesses which quality?

Anthropomorphism is the idea that God is a lot like __________.

Buddhism responds to the problem of evil with the idea of compassion.

Voltaire was a deist.