{"id":43285,"date":"2021-06-03T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=43285"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:34:26","slug":"must-read-paper-on-counting-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/must-read-paper-on-counting-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Must-Read Paper&#8221; &#8220;On Counting Gods&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Zeus-Serapis_Heraklion-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43286\" width=\"270\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Zeus-Serapis_Heraklion-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Zeus-Serapis_Heraklion-301x450.jpg 301w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Zeus-Serapis_Heraklion-768x1148.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Zeus-Serapis_Heraklion-1028x1536.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1200px-Zeus-Serapis_Heraklion.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At The Secular Outpost Jeffrey Jay Lowder gives a recommendation of and some interesting brief comments on my paper <strong>&#8220;<a aria-label=\"On Counting Gods (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/ojs.uclouvain.be\/index.php\/theologica\/article\/view\/153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">On Counting Gods<\/a>.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In part, he discusses how my distinctions apply to this often-repeated quotation, a favorite of internet atheists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I contend we are both atheists, <strong>I just believe in one fewer god<\/strong> than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think what Lowder says about this in light of my god vs. deity distinction is <strong>on the right track<\/strong>. One could surely write a good journal article on this sort of argument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out his whole post <a aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/secularoutpost\/2021\/06\/01\/must-read-paper-on-the-confusing-terminology-in-the-philosophy-of-religion\/#disqus_thread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear a version of that material in podcast form, check out <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-164-on-counting-gods\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"podcast 146 (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">podcast 146<\/a><\/strong>, my presentation at Boston University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I just believe in one fewer god than you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,71,47,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-atheism","category-papers","category-philosophy","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43288,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43285\/revisions\/43288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}