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Questions:

1. What's the difference between direct and indirect religious experiences? (Give an example to clarify.)
2. What's the difference between essentially and accidentally private religious experiences? (Give an example to clarify)
3. Explain the difference between weak and strong versions of the principle of credulity.
4. What are the three versions of Pascal's wager?
5. What's the difference between the seemingly complementary intellectual imperatives "discover the truth" and "avoid error"?
6. What does it mean to say that religion is a "genuine option? What is it to say that religion is a "dead hypothesis"?
7. How do logical and rhetorical arguments differ?
8. What's the difference between saying that religious beliefs are fundamentally erroneous and saying that they are fundamentally illusory?
9. If illusions are not necessarily false, then why might someone nevertheless still regard them as necessarily unacceptable?
10. What might it be important to say that "God is dead" rather than that "God was never real?
11. What is "conformist fIdeism"?
12. In what way does the anti-rational ?deist accept religious skepticism?
13. Why is it important to say that the radical fideist is not just arational or irrational, but rather decidedly anti-rational?
14. What does the "presumption of atheism" mean?
15. What does it mean to say that all theists are also local atheists?
16. What is the difference between soft and hard agnosticism?
17. Give one way in which atheists might impose a burden of proof on theists, and one way that theists might reply.
18. What is the falsi?cation challenge to religious belief?