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  1. John C. Lennox _ Gunning for God: Why the New

    Czeslaw Milosz, who had reason to know, writes: "A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged."54 Thus, if God does exist, atheism can be seen as a psychological escape mechanism to avoid taking ultimate responsibility for one's own life.
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  2. John C. Lennox _ Gunning for God: Why the New

    Some will take issue, however, with the idea that the resurrection body of Christ is physical, by pointing out that the New Testament itself speaks of the resurrection body as a "spiritual body".110 The objection, then, asserts that "spiritual" means "non-physical". But a moment's reflection shows that there are other possibilities. When we speak of a "petrol engine", we do not mean an "engine made of petrol". No, we mean an engine powered by petrol. Thus the term "spiritual body" could well be referring to the power behind that body's life, rather than a description of what it is made of.
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  3. John C. Lennox _ Gunning for God: Why the New

    Hawking's inadequate view of God could well be linked with his attitude to philosophy in general. He writes: "Philosophy is dead."9 But this itself is a philosophical statement. It is manifestly not a statement of science. Therefore, because it says that philosophy is dead, it contradicts itself. It is a classic example of logical incoherence. Not only that: Hawking's book, insofar as it is interpreting and applying science to ultimate questions like the existence of God, is a book about metaphysics - philosophy par excellence.
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