A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell (Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion) by Berman David

Author:Berman, David [Berman, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2013-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Francis accepts this argument from parity of reasoning, but he rejects Watson’s conclusion. In his view natural and revealed religion fall together. He believes that the cause or causes of the world ‘neither possess benevolence, nor any other passion’ (p. 13). But in saying this Francis does not say that all meaningful conceptions of God must be rejected. A God that was not good or loving might still count as God, for He might still possess various intellectual and natural attributes. However, the drift of Francis’s argument is that there is no tenable conception of God; and his specific remarks on atheism lend support to the supposition that he was an atheist:

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