Template talk:God Arguments

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I like it, but I'm afraid I should probably have discussed this somewhere first, so I won't include it in more pages. At least it looks nice... :) I might of course have missed some important argument and the order is almost completely arbitrary, but other than that, I'm very happy with it. --Merzul 23:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Arguments for and against the existence of God"

A few of these aren't arguments about whether God exists, but about whether we should believe that it does. Suggesting change to something like "Arguments for and against belief in God", which seems to cover all of them. Ilkali 13:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pascal's wager and Atheist's wager

Removed them as they are reasons to believe on God (or not), not any comment about the existance (or lack of) of God. Duke toaster (talk) 18:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

I take it you mean believe in God. The template is about reasons to believe in God. God existing or not existing would presumably be one such reason to believe or disbelieve in him (though you could still argue otherwise). Pascal's wager doesn't make any argument about whether God exists (though it assumes that there is some probability of him existing, otherwise it would be kinda pointless).

We don't actually have an article on belief in God (should we?), but this template is for arguments about that. I might also note that it's fairly arbitrary to divide them into 'for' and 'against' arguments, as many can be both for or against (e.g. free will). But I'm not sure whether it would be better to get rid of the 'for' and 'against' categories, as they do apply to many of them to a greater or lesser degree. Richard001 (talk) 06:22, 29 March 2008 (UTC)