Welcome aboard.

ClassicalLiberal.Theist wrote:

Opinions? Thoughts?

Yes, that it's quite suspicious that you keep misspelling "argument" as "arguement". (I would add a pensive chin scratch or detective emoji to lighten the tone of my sentence, if there were such things on here.)

I'm not so sure about your focus on certain knowledge. The ancient skeptics, including those of the Middle Academy, were focused on not knowledge but beliefs. This is one of the things that marks ancient skepticism off from a lot of modern skepticism. When I write in the skeptical mode, very often I'm questioning whether we can even have rational beliefs about some of these things. (Socrates wasn't a full on skeptic, except in the attenuated sense authors like Popkin use (in that he doubts whether we have evidence for a lot of things), but he was much more skeptical than I think you're giving him credit for.)

But like I said, this isn't the place for this conversation.

I'm reminded of a comment a Muslim friend made to me, several months ago now, in a rather less personal discussion, and thought you might benefit from it:

Islam has absolute monotheism at its heart, and is uncompromising about it.  The Qur'an offers more than just theological assertions on this score, but also, rather surprisingly perhaps, psychological insight into how so simple and clear a message can be distorted, that is, it give us a sense of why we cannot just say 'God is, God is One' and let it go.  The pressures are not only cultural and historical and theological, but are also intrinsic to the human being himself.  While monotheism as such is part of the primal human outlook (called 'fitra' in Arabic), so too are the forces that weaken and distort it also part of human nature.  Islam holds that monotheism, despite its naturalness and appeal, must be maintained by continual effort; one refreshes one's approach to the absoluteness of the one God, so to speak, on a daily basis.

This is part of the reason Muslims do things like pray five times a day, every day.

I think it's a mistake to try solving problems of the heart by banging one's head against them, and advise serious, daily devotions; on the other hand, I think there are good arguments against both theism (and atheism, for that matter) and monotheistic religions and, so, think there are real intellectual problems to go along with your emotional problems. Don't let slobbering radicals on here cow you into ignoring real doubts you might have. That won't help.

119 wrote:

No, the best argument for Classical Theism "works" as well as anything in philosophy. That's the problem.

Good heavens, I hope philosophy can do better than an argument that has the identity of indiscernibles as a premise. The first part isn't too bad, though.