Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1469-901x|48|2|183-198
ISSN： 0034-4125
Source： Religious Studies, Vol.48, Iss.2, 2011-10, pp. : 183-198
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Abstract
If God exists, why isn't His existence more apparent? In recent analytic philosophy this longstanding question has been developed into an argument for atheism typically referred to as the ‘problem of divine hiddenness’. My goal here is to put forward a new reply. The basic idea is that there is some reason to think that for many of us, our moral conduct would not improve even if God's existence were not subject to doubt. However, immoral conduct in such a state of affairs would be even more immoral, and hence justly subject to greater punishment, than it is in a state of affairs in which God's existence
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