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Challenges of Door-to-Door Religious Conversion Attempts
TLDR Door-to-door religious conversion attempts can lead to awkward situations due to inherent dishonesty, focusing on convincing individuals of a generic god rather than promoting a specific religious doctrine. Descartes faced societal pressures in expressing his true beliefs, concluding that the existence of an infinite being, God, is necessary for the reliability of our perceptions of reality.
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Dealing with door-to-door religious conversion attempts can put people in awkward situations due to the inherent level of dishonesty present in these interactions.
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Door-to-door religious conversion attempts focus on convincing individuals of the existence of a generic god rather than promoting a specific religious doctrine.
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Descartes needed the concept of God as a basis for his rationalist philosophical system, not for monetary gain, and he faced challenges in expressing his true beliefs due to societal pressures.
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Descartes concludes that his existence is certain because he is a thinking thing, and he argues that the existence of an infinite being, which he calls God, is necessary to ensure the reliability of our perceptions of the world.
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Descartes uses two main arguments, including the ontological argument, to prove the existence of God as an infinite, perfect being necessary to ground the reliability of our perceptions of reality.
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Descartes argues that all ideas have varying levels of objective reality, with the idea of God having infinite objective reality due to the necessity of an infinite, uncaused, eternal, and spiritual being to create everything in the universe.
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Descartes' argument for the existence of God is often criticized for circular reasoning and the distinction he makes between objective and formal reality.
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Descartes' argument relies on the assumption that humans have an innate idea of an infinite God, a concept that is not universally shared and may be influenced by cultural conditioning.
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