| But theists are not usually willing to say, in all contexts, that all the evil that occurs is a minute and necessary dose. |
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| But as Johnson himself notes, many people think that they can be methodological naturalists and theists. |
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| If you ask theists why there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent god, there is no further explanation they can give. |
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| There are too many brilliant and clever scientists who know much more about science than I do who are theists, to say it can't be reconciled. |
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| Years ago I wrote about the tendency of modernist, evolution-minded, progressive, pacifist theists to live long lives. |
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| There are theists in all of these categories, so they all allow for divine intervention of a kind. |
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| Open theists, following process theists, insist on the difficulties the Thomistic solution poses for human freedom. |
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| Theists argue that God is a personal, loving God who shares and participates in our lives i.e. he shares in our joy and in our pain. |
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| Most agnostics are closer in beliefs to atheists than to theists. |
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| Love is a duty for everybody, not merely for theists or church members. |
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| But theists do not violate the functional separation of church and state merely by explaining their own political stance in terms of their conscientious beliefs. |
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| Is it pragmatically better to believe in God than not, insofar as theists, taken across all possible worlds, are on average better off than atheists? |
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| Because theists are forgiven by the Sky Fairy. So they can be as bad as they wanna be. |
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| However, evolution remains a contentious concept for some theists. |
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