I have previously argued that natural varieties of nonbelief in God pose an important challenge to theism—one that can incorporate our knowledge of natural evil and animal suffering. After revisiting the problem of natural nonbelief, this chapter presents and evaluates a theological solution to it. According to the proposed solution, natural nonbelief shows not that God is less likely to exist but is less likely to care about the details of people’s religious beliefs. While this partial “doxastic indifference” solution to divine hiddenness is worth considering, I go on to reject it for both epistemic and axiological reasons.

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Does God Care About What People Think About God? Revisiting the Problem of Natural Nonbelief

  • Jason Marsh

摘要

I have previously argued that natural varieties of nonbelief in God pose an important challenge to theism—one that can incorporate our knowledge of natural evil and animal suffering. After revisiting the problem of natural nonbelief, this chapter presents and evaluates a theological solution to it. According to the proposed solution, natural nonbelief shows not that God is less likely to exist but is less likely to care about the details of people’s religious beliefs. While this partial “doxastic indifference” solution to divine hiddenness is worth considering, I go on to reject it for both epistemic and axiological reasons.