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Praying to stop being an atheist

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In this paper, I argue that atheists who think that the issue of God's existence or non-existence is an important one; assign a greater than negligible probability to God's existence; and are not in possession of a plausible argument for scepticism about the truth-directedness of uttering such prayers in their own cases, are under a prima facie obligation to pray to God that He stop them being atheists.
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10.1007/s11153-010-9227-8

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Peter's College
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Springer Publisher's website
Journal:
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Journal website
Volume:
67
Issue:
3
Pages:
173-186
Publication date:
2010-06-01
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1572-8684
ISSN:
0020-7047
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English
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ora:4024
Deposit date:
2010-07-23

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