John Bishop - Why Believe in God?

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This is personal. ‘Why believe in God’ can mean two things: ‘What are the possible benefits of believing in God?’ and ‘what are the possible reasons justifying a belief in God?’ The two are not the same, though they could interact. Why should I want to believe in God? Is belief a circular path of self-deception? Or the shortest route to bedrock reality?

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John Bishop is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He hodls a BA from the Australian National Unviersity and a PhD from Cambridge.

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