Belief in spirit seems marginal or nearly absent in contemporary philosophy and wider academia. The lack of discussion on spirits may lead one to think that belief in spirits is hopelessly irrational. In this post, I argue otherwise.
Let’s grant that if skeptical theism is true, then for any evil E, we have no reason to think that the prevention of E will lead to an overall better result than letting E happen, so the fact that we do not see God preventing E is not evidence against the existence of God, since we have no more reason to think that God would prevent E than that he would not. The standard objection is that then we have no reason to prevent E, since we have no reason to think that the overall result will be better if we prevent E.
I propose a way of trusting (accepting, relying on, being committed to, having confidence in) theism in an intellectually responsible manner. I do not hold that...
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