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    Challenges→The most ambitious atheistic arguments do not suffice to justify global atheism.

    The most ambitious atheistic arguments attempt to show that the concept of God is incoherent or that God's existence is logically incompatible with certain sorts of evil or non-belief.

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    Incoherent(describing whether moral responsibility can exist)
    Logically impossible or contradictory; something that cannot make sense or cannot exist at the same time as something else.
    Logically incompatible(as used in logic)
    Two things that cannot both be true at the same time; if one is true, the other must be false.
    atheistic arguments(as used in philosophy of religion)

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    problem of evil(Used as a basis for arguing against the existence of the God of traditional theism)
    The philosophical challenge of vindicating God's moral attributes (particularly omnipotence and perfect goodness) in light of the existence of evil in the world

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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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