/lit/ - Literature

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The irony of you calling Aquinas a brainlet then going on to misrepresent his argument in the dumbest way possible. Please read this:

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/07/so-you-think-you-understand.html

Mandatory reading for any atheist before they ever write anything about cosmological arguments.

As for the topic the books I recommend are:

1. Five Proofs of God - Ed Feser
Good starting point for anyone looking to dive in. Explains five different traditional arguments for God in exhaustive detail. You might not be convinced but at the very least by the end of the book you'll understand the arguments properly.

2. Proofs of God - Matthew Levering
Another good book to build context. Goes through the history of arguments for God from Plato all the way up to modern Protestant Christians like Barth.

3. Returning to Reality: Christian Platonism for our Times
The real hard hitting stuff starts here. An attack on the mindless naive empirical worldview that has taken hold of western culture and an explanation of why we need to return to a Platonic metaphysics

4. The Experience of God & Atheist Delusions - David Bentley Hart
A one two punch that no atheist has ever replied to, nor will they ever because DBHs argument in these two books is air tight. In a sense all the previous books are to prepare you for these two that will slap the materialism out of you and start getting you asking the real questions about how tenable atheism really is given it's logical conclusions. If you finish both of these and feel confident move on to the Beauty of the Infinite to start dipping your toes into real Christian Theology.

The book that destroyed atheism...

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