Book 8, Ch. 5.  THE INNER CONFLICT Augustine had made the “intellectual conversion” to Christianity where he discovered that Christian Theism is the most intellectually plausible worldview and he thought it was true.  He thought that he was wrong when he believed Mani and later the NeoPlatonists to be right.  He had discovered the truth about reality in Jesus.  There was one obstacle to keep him from having faith (or “trust in the things we have good reasons to believe are true”).  What was it?  What kept Augustine from following Jesus (even though he knew Jesus revealed who the person of God is). 

Book I: Childhood What problem did Augustine have with the Greek poet, Homer, and other literature of the day that described what Zeus and the other gods were like? 

Socrates and Crito both critique what institution when they say, “…the majority can inflice not the least but pretty well the greatest evils if one is slandered among them.”

THE OBJECTIVE GOAL OF THE SOCRATIC ELENCHUS When seeing to analyze claims of an interlocutor, Socrates attempted to analyze them by reducing them to a contradiction or by reducing them to an ______________. 

Which of the following is not a powerful rhetorical trick by persons in power to make competing views irrelevant and worth investigating? 

Augustine never found joy in chastity.  He never found dignity in continence (refraining from sex), even though he was convinced Jesus revealed the person of God. 

THEISTIC RESPONSES TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL:  THOMAS AQUINAS (13th Century Christian Philosopher): . The inductive (evidential) version of the problem of evil has the potential to work only against someone who has no solid reasons to believe God exists.  

Which of the following is not one of the three major beliefs of the Naturalistic (scientific atheist) worldview? 

Journalist Sharyl Attkisson argues in her books, Stonewalled  . . . and The Smear . . ., that a good test of the media is to see if they treat different groups the same in their media coverage.  The media was 80% positive for Obama in 2008 and 80% negative for McCain.  So, does the media treat President Trump the same way they treated President Obama when mainstream media news is 95% negative towards Trump?  Are liberal speakers treated the same way as conservative speakers on college campuses?  Does the media treat Christians the same way they treat Muslims?  . Sharyl Attkisson argues that this test will help all Americans become critical thinkers able to evaluate the facts from propaganda that come from media types.  What does she call this test?

PROBLEM OF EVIL FOR ATHEISTS (NATURALISTS): . Every worldview (naturalism, personal theism, finite theism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.) has a problem of evil.  The problem for Naturalists (scientific atheists) is what?