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    Atheists have not reflected on what criteria must be sati... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Global atheism is a very difficult position to justify.

    Atheists have not reflected on what criteria must be satisfied for a concept of God to count as legitimate.

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    Global atheism is a very difficult position to justify (Diller 2016: 11–16). Indeed, very few atheists have any good reason to believe that it is true since the vast majority of atheists have made no attempt to reflect on more than one or two of the many legitimate concepts of God that exist both inside and outside of various religious communities. Nor have they reflected on what criteria must be satisfied in order for a concept of God to count as “legitimate”, let alone on the possibility of le

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