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Slide 1:Quotes for ‘Believing in God’
Slide 2:Be sure We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits of your toil, but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere - who say when afflicted with calamity, ‘to God we belong and to Him is our return’ Qur’an, Surah 2
Slide 3:Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both willing and able? Then whence is evil?
- Epicurius (a ancient Greek philosopher)
Slide 4:"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.“
-R. Dawkins, scientist and atheist
Slide 5:“Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.”
-Paul Tillich, Christian philosopher